Charley Locke was a reporter for EdSurge. Previously, she taught nonfiction writing to teenagers at GAKKO in Shodoshima, Japan, and at El Centro de Esperanza Infantíl in Oaxaca, Mexico. Charley also worked as a reader at The Paris Review, and would always like to think of herself as a professional reader. She has a B.A. from Yale University, where she studied American literature.