(he, him, his) Anthony Pratcher II is an education consultant and childhood literacy advocate. He previously held academic posts at Carnegie Mellon University, Brown University, and Arizona State University. He earned his Ph. D. in American History from the University of Pennsylvania and was awarded a B.A. in History from Howard University. He co-edited a textbook on planning history, Planning Future Cities (Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt, 2017) with Walter Greason, and has been published by Pennsylvania Magazine of Biography and History, Southern California Quarterly and Technology and Culture. His research has been funded by the Arizona Historical Society and an NEH/ODH Fellowship on Space and Place in Africana/Black Studies.