Advancing Emerging Technology Education Through Practical Learning & Student-Centered Development, 2026
In this edition, we are pleased to feature Dr. Quiana D. Bradshaw, an educator whose work reflects the growing importance of practical, student focused learning in the field of emerging technology. As technology continues to evolve at an extraordinary pace, the need for educators who can prepare students for real world challenges has never been greater.
On Cover
Dr. Quiana D. Bradshaw
Academic Program Director of Emerging Technology Columbia Southern University
Every great educator can trace their calling back to a moment when they realized that their greatest impact comes through helping others learn and grow. For Dr. Quiana Bradshaw, that realization emerged during her undergraduate years when she discovered the profound satisfaction of tutoring and mentoring her peers.
Buddy Harris
Assistant Director of Operations (Expansion & Innovative Programming Leader) | New Leaf Organization
In the landscape of American education, where systems are often built for the majority and the margins are left to fend for themselves, certain leaders emerge not to work within the edges of change but to redefine where the center ought to be. Buddy Harris is one of those rare individuals whose career reads less like a résumé and more like a calling, a steady, purposeful journey driven by one enduring conviction: that every student, regardless of circumstance, deserves to be seen, heard, and given a genuine chance to succeed.
Sally Jones
Founder, SQS4KIDS
Some missions begin with anger. Others begin with grief. Sally Jones’s began with something quieter and far more enduring: a personal reckoning with her own childhood that refused to let her look away. That experience, and the determination it ignited, became the seed of SQS4KIDS a trauma-informed child protection program now poised to reach classrooms across the globe.
