Torie Weiston-Serdan is a scholar and practitioner with over 17 years of teaching and youth programming experience. An award-winning leader in the youth mentoring field, she wrote Critical Mentoring: A Practical Guide, which became the handbook for equity-focused youth work in the field. Outside of teaching and research, Weiston-Serdan runs the Youth Mentoring Action Network, a non-profit dedicated to building youth power through mentoring, wellness, and education, and the Center for Critical Mentoring and Youth Work, a non-profit advancing the concept of critical mentoring through training, research, and incident response teams.

I write to question, critique, problematize and freedom dream. I am writing about issues related to critical youth work, abolition and the radical re-imagining of systems.