Drea Gallaga is the Director of the Live+Serve Lab and an upper school teacher at North Shore Country Day School outside of Chicago. Drea works with her colleagues to shape curricula around service, community partnerships, design thinking, and problem-solving; she also currently teaches comparative religion, gender and sexuality studies, entrepreneurship, and an interdisciplinary class about food. Drea has had a lifelong and deep interest in the power of community, an interest furthered by being an educator, making music with others (especially singing!), and immersion in both Quakerism and Buddhism. She aspires to participate in and contribute to communities that are authentic, accountable, and hopeful.