Anne Swenson Ticknor is a literacy educator with over two decades of teaching experience. She researches identity, relationships, agency, and equity as mediated through literacy. Christy M. Howard is a teacher educator with interests in literacy across the disciplines. Her research interests focus on content area literacy, teacher preparation, diversity, and identity. Mikkaka Overstreet has been an educator since 2006, first as an elementary teacher, then a literacy consultant, and now a literacy professor. Her research focuses on exploring intersections of literacy, identity, and learning, particularly related to culturally responsive pedagogy.