Beverly Crawford is a life-long educator with a passion for multi-disciplinary and international education. She began her career as a high school teacher in a community of migrant farmworkers in the California central valley. She is now a professor at UC Berkeley and the principal investigator of a project funded by the US Department of Education to convert university research on pressing international issues (i.e.public health, energy and environment, food, global conflict) into user-friendly format for integration into into the California high school curriculum. Links 1 2 Professor Crawford is also a committed volunteer with "Challenge Day," a program to combat bullying in high schools by providing students, teachers, and parents with experiential programs that demonstrate the possibility of truthful and caring human connections. Believing that it is possible to create a global culture driven by trust and inclusion and that small groups with big ideas can change the world, she is a devoted participant in the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, a program that unites social entrepreneurs with essential partners in collaboration for large-scale international social change. There she has worked with social entrepreneurs to develop the tools needed to work successfully across different cultures and contexts. She believes that playfulness and humor are essential to teaching and she writes funny poems for her students.