Maria José Botelho is interested in how school literacy practices can be re-imagined to affirm children’s cultural and linguistic knowledge as well as to offer tools for cultural production and social participation and re/organization. Her three-pronged research agenda offers some possibilities for this work.

Elenita Irizarry Ramos has over a decade of experience in teaching in K-12 multilingual environments. She is a proud alumna of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (UPRM). Elenita completed her doctoral studies in Curriculum and Teaching at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras (UPRRP). She was a Visiting Scholar at Indiana University-Bloomington and has been an Adjunct Lecturer at UMass Amherst. Her research includes documenting "Puerto Rican English Teachers’ Perception of Resilience in the Aftermath of Hurricane María.”