Eboney McKinney is the Director of Mathematics and Educational Technology for the Arizona Department of Education, Academic Standards Unit. She started out as a Mathematics Program Specialist for ADE in Exceptional Student Services. Before working for the state, she spent 11 years working in Southern Arizona, in the Sierra Vista Public School District, as a Student Achievement Teacher and as a Teacher Leader and education advocate. As a classroom teacher she taught 4th, 5th and 6th grade. She advocated for her students and colleagues as President of her local association and as the Region 12 Director for the AZ Education Association and as Southern- VP for the AZ Association of Teachers of Mathematics. As an IMPACTS Teacher Leader she facilitated math professional development with the IMPACTS program through the University of Arizona Center for Recruitment and Retention of Mathematics Teachers. She has presented at the local, state and national level. She earned her B.A. in Elementary Education from Prescott College, AZ and her M.A. in Mathematics Teaching and a certificate in Professional Development and Coaching from Mount Holyoke College, MA.