Margie Carr is a fourth-generation Kansan and grew up in the Kansas City area. She knew how to attend only one school, the University of Kansas, which is where she earned her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Her undergraduate and doctoral degrees are in education while her master's degree is in museum studies, an area she pursued because it sounded calm. Except for the years spent raising her children when Margie worked as a freelance writer, she was in classrooms working with every age of student from preschool to the graduate level. Today she trains and supervises volunteers who advocate for children in the foster care system. Margie is the author of "Kansas City's Montgall Avenue: Black Leaders and the Street They Called Home," winner of the George Ehrlich Aware for excellence in writing and chosen as a Notable Book of Kansas in 2024.