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No. 1-& 2  \nSpring/Summer 2018, pp. 86-113 Copyright 2018 by Caddo Gap Press  \nKeywords:  \nteacher activism, math education, science education, STEM education, urban education, teachers of color  \nAbstract  \nTeacher activism is developing throughout the country with an expanding research base, but little research addresses teacher activism specifically in STEM fields. Using critical race feminism, intersectionality, and TribalCrit this qualitative study focuses on four STEM teacher activists, who founded a social justice STEM organization, to explore how they became involved in grassroots organizing and how they conceptualize STEM teacher activism (STA) . Findings indicate that firsthand experiences of marginalization sparked their engagement in teacher activism and that participants have a strong understanding of structural oppression. STA becomes a vehicle for their own healing as well as a means toward addressing the inequities they witness and experience in their communities. Participants define STA as attending to community health and ancestral knowledge to humanize STEM education for their communities.  \nIntroduction  \nTeacher/educator activism1 has been described as working toward  \nKari Kokka is an assistant professor of mathematics education in the Department of Instruction and Learning of the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her e-mail address is: [kokka@pitt.edu](kokka@pitt.edu)  \nsocial justice both inside and outside the classroom (Picower, 2012) . Inside the classroom, teacher activists use Social Justice Pedagogy in their instructional practices. Social Justice Pedagogy (SJP) is a teaching approach that aims to develop students’ academic proficiency and students’ sociopolitical consciousness, or conscientização (Freire, 1970), to critically analyze and change the world (Apple, Au & Gandlin, 2009; Ayers, 2009; Picower, 2012) . SJP has been applied to the fields of STEM education, such as mathematics (e.g. Gutiérrez, 2002; Gutstein, 2006; Kokka, 2015, 2017), science (Dimick, 2012), and engineering (Riley, 2003) . Outside the classroom, teachers may work within teacher unions (Johnson, 2002; Levine, 2002) or with grassroots organizations (Catone, 2017; Picower, 2012) .  \nGrassroots teacher activism has gained traction as evidenced by organizations such as Teachers 4 Social Justice in San Francisco, Teachers for Social Justice Chicago, Teacher Action Group Philly, Teacher Activist Group Boston, NewYork Collective of Radical Educators, People’sEducation Movement,Young People’s Project, and the Black Teacher Project. In addition, several conferences and events cater to educator activists such as Free Minds Free People Conference, nationwide Black Lives Matter in Schools week (Dixson, 2017; Mayorga & Picower, 2017; Teaching for Change, n.d.), Teachers 4 Social Justice Conference, Teacher Activist Group Boston Conference, and the Northwest Conference on Teaching for Social Justice. Some of these conferences focus on social justice and STEM education like the Creating Balance in an Unjust World Conference and the Data for Black Lives conference.  \nDespite the involvement of STEM2 educators in grassroots teacher activism, most research on teacher activism has focused on teachers who are elementary, English, or social studies teachers. For instance, Montaño, López-Torres, DeLissovoy, Pacheco, & Stillman (2002) study of five alumni of UCLA’s teacher education program included two elementary teachers and three social studies teachers. 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