Donte Woods-Spikes is an author, documentarian, and professional speaker from Columbus Ohio. His book, So. Long. Unfinished Good-byes with the Children of COVID-19 explores his experience as a Black male educator, as well the realities that children face in public schools of the inner-city. His goal with the book is to start a national dialogue between educators while documenting conversations, hoping to provide policy makers and schools boards with qualitative data to better support teachers and classrooms.