How to open a book? We have spent much time thinking and rethinking about how we might begin a book that blends the ideas, passions, critiques, and voices of four authors from diverse backgrounds and scholarly traditions, as well as those of the many more educators and young people who have engaged in the creative projects we document here. It has been a daunting, enjoyable, and at times confronting process to stay open to wild thinking and sometimes uncomfortable critique. Central to our collective effort was a commitment to a spirit of inquiry and dialogue—a spirit made all the more necessary when, in the closing stages of the manuscript′s preparation, there was an arresting change in the dynamic of the world′s political leadership; a change with as yet unknown impacts that reach to the very heart of this text.