Nichelle Calhoun is a social scientist and educator for Coolidge High School who builds on her experience working, traveling and researching in the African Diaspora for 20+ years documenting the diverse Black experience over time and space. Now, living in the Washington, DC area, she formerly lived in Miami, Florida for 12 years which was a base for her documenting Black communities in Central and South America, and where she taught adult English Language Learners through the refugee program R.E.V.E.S.T and business personnel and entrepreneurs from all over the world from Kazakhstan to Argentina. Nichelle in her spare time works with Afro-Colombian women organizers and local leaders in Buenaventura, Colombia. Now proudly as a Coolidge High School teacher, Nichelle sees her diverse work experiences coming full circle with the redesign. By being a part of incorporating the SDGs as a framework for the school’s redesign, Nichelle hopes to make a meaningful impact by centering the interdisciplinary tools and global gaze that has been so significant in her personal experience to the experience of so many others. Having learned so much from the lives, knowledge and experiences of her students from all over the world over the years, she is motivated to center that knowledge in the redesign. She hopes to make significant contributions alongside her team members in creating an introduction to SDGs course - centering identity and empathy to action. She is motivated alongside her team members to co-create a living laboratory of the SDGs that is modifiable for an education that is full with rigor, deep experiences, and inclusive to the world's knowledge via the lens of the families Coolidge serves.