These are our core principles, a set of presuppositions, which we hold as core intentions and beliefs. Learning and teaching must be centered in student voice, interest, and curiosities. Skills, abilities, and content must be learned and developed within context. Social equity is a goal in education. The chief impediments to equity are structures of oppression in education, and beyond, that create and sustain inequity; not the qualities of our under-represented students. Through self-reflection and community negotiation educators, as learning facilitators, must authentically engage with and attend to their experience with injustice and inequity.