Dr. Mirit Haybi Barak, a facilitator of professional groups and teams in social and educational organizations, and a lecturer at the University of Haifa, Tel Hai College, and the Mandel Institute for Leadership in the North. Mirit researches social mobility, education and status, and the development of a future perspective among underprivileged populations; and is engaged in promoting social mobility, developing and building identity, and promoting discourse in a diverse society. Lives in the Galilee, married and mother of three.