Charity Freeman is the Senior Director for Broadband at the Illinois Broadband Lab with the University of Illinois System, and has extensive experience in computer science education, curriculum development, digital literacy, technology integration, and education policy. A former high school computer science teacher and Board Chair of the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA), Charity leads multiple state and national initiatives focused on equitable CS education, including ECEP Illinois and the NSF INVITE AI Institute. Charity obtained her master’s in educational policy and is earning her PhD in educational psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A diehard Bears fan, staunch supporter of the “Sears Tower,” and firm believer that ketchup doesn’t belong on hotdogs, Charity is proud to be an educator who’s not just teaching technology, but actively reshaping how it’s taught and who has access to it.