Mira Debs is the Executive Director of Yale University's Education Studies program and a lecturer in the Sociology Department. She is the author of Diverse Families, Desirable Schools: Public Montessori in the Era of School Choice (Harvard Education Press, 2019) and her Montessori research has been published in the American Education Research Journal and the Journal of Montessori Research. She serves as the Chair of the Board of Elm City Montessori School, New Haven's public Montessori school. She also helped co-found Montessori for Social Justice, a grassroots network of Montessori educators in 2013.