Dr. Krystal Strong is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Graduate School of Education with affiliations in Anthropology and Africana Studies. Her research and teaching focus on student activism, the cultural and political power of youth, and the role of educational spaces as sites of political struggle with a geographic focus on Africa and the African Diaspora. She is currently completing her first book project entitled, Political Training Grounds: Schools and Youth Power in Nigeria After Democracy, an ethnography of post-military university student politics in southwestern Nigeria. Other research examines the role of educational development in the production of a new leadership class in Africa, and the incidence and causes of contemporary school-based protests in Africa.