Science Department Chair/Science Teacher
Crosstown High
Nikki Wallace is an award-winning science educator and innovator. She has taught at Crosstown High in Memphis, Tennessee, since the school opened in 2018, having emerged from the original XQ Super School competition. Understanding the importance of education in the larger social justice movement, Wallace is committed to reducing barriers to the STEM fields for young people from marginalized communities in order to ensure equity, diversity, and inclusion. She develops project-based curricula that challenge students to imagine themselves as scientists, make meaningful connections to their communities and the environment, and experience the utility and power of science.
Wallace is a Biorad Explorer Fellow, founder of Sisters Innovating Science and BioThinker Nonprofit, serves on the X in a Box Education Advisory committee, serves on the XQ Design Collaborative, a committee member for the West TN STEM Hub, a member of the Frayser PTSA, and has been featured in the University of Memphis Alumni Magazine, XQ America, PopUp Magazine, and The Daily Memphian for her work with Crosstown High and the STEM in Medicine Ecosystem in Memphis. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Masters in Science Education.
Disrupting Conventional Assumptions about High School Learning
Saturday, February 17, 2024
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM MST