Brita Ariel Bookser is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Child Studies at Santa Clara University with expertise in early childhood, educational (in)equity, and antiracist and liberatory pedagogies. Throughout her childhood, Brita envisioned her future career as a “baby doctor.” Brita’s research and expertise investigate hidden dimensions of exclusionary discipline in early childhood contexts; structural factors that explain educational exclusion; and early childhood antiracist and liberatory pedagogy and praxis frameworks.