Kathleen Marie Doyle is a writer and award-winning teacher committed to education, the environment, and democracy. She earned her Master of Arts in Teaching Secondary Social Studies at Brown University, and her Bachelor of Arts in Social Thought and Political Economy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she grew to love history (her least favorite subject in high school), and where her interest in social and environmental justice was nurtured. She is also a graduate of the Institute of Children's Literature. Her published works include Allies for Justice: How Louis Redding and Collins Seitz Changed the Complexion of America's Schools, a YA historical nonfiction book about the important role that Delaware played in the Brown vs. Board of Education case; Blue's RIver, a YA historical fiction book about a Great Blue Heron, a 10-year-old Girl and the Saint Jones River in Dover, Delaware; and Finding Pop Pop, a children's picture book about love, loss and joy.