Ashley Speed is an AMI-certified Montessori guide with over a decade of classroom experience. She has presented at Montessori conferences on children’s literacy, creating queer-friendly classroom environments, sex ed and more. She has designed and sold inclusive classroom materials since 2016. She spends her spare time cross stitching, parenting a highly intelligent and energetic daughter, and sharing her life with two wonderful men—one of whom is the world’s best husband and one who writes the world’s best bios.