Dr. Ricki Ginsberg is Associate Professor and Co-Director of English Education at Colorado State University. She is a former ALAN president and The ALAN Review editor, and she directs the BIToC (teachers) Collective at Colorado State University and serves as Co-Chair of the Native American Advisory Council. Her work has been published in journals like American Indian Quarterly, English Journal, Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, and Teachers College Record. Her first book, co-edited with Wendy J. Glenn, is Engaging with Multicultural YA Literature in the Secondary Classroom: Critical Approaches for Critical Educators (2019, Routledge). Her newest book is Challenging Traditional Classroom Spaces with YA Literature: Students in Community as Course Co-Designers (2022, National Council of Teachers of English).

Mollie Blackburn is a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning and affiliated with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University. Her research focuses on literacy, language, and social change, with particular attention to queer youth and the teachers who teach them. She is the author of Moving across Differences: How Students Engage LGBTQ+ themes in a High-school Literature Class and Interrupting Hate: Homophobia in Schools and what Literacy can do about it, the editor of Adventurous Thinking: Students’ Rights to Read and Write, among co-authored and co-edited books. She has received NCTE’s LGBTQ+ Advocacy and Leadership Award; WILLA’s Inglis Award for work in gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, and young people; AERA’s Queer Studies Special Interest Group’s Body of Work Award; and the Alan C. Purves Award for an article in the Research in the Teaching of English deemed rich with implications for classroom practice. She has also been recognized with The Ohio State University’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. 

Cristina Herrera is Professor and Director of Chicano/Latino Studies at Portland State University. She is the author and editor of multiple books on Chicanx and Latinx young adult literature, including her 2020 monograph, ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy (Routledge). Her co-edited volume with Dr. Trevor Boffone, Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature, won the 2022 Children's Literature Association Edited Book Award. Cristina has a forthcoming monograph, Welcome to the 805: Michele Serros's Oxnard Writings, with University of Pittsburgh Press.

Dr. Sarah J. Donovan is a former Chicago  junior high ELA teacher & assistant professor at Oklahoma State University. She is the author of the Alone Together , editor of Rhyme and Rhythm: Poems for Student Athletes, & founder of Ethical ELA, an open access site for educators.. Her publications focus on anti-bias reading practices of YAL and writing in teacher professional development using relational poetry pedagogy.

Dr. Gretchen Rumohr is a professor of English, department chair, and writing program administrator at Aquinas College, MI. She is the chief curator for YA Wednesday and editor of Contending with Gun Violence in the English Language Classroom. Dr. Rumohr lives in Zeeland, MI with her four daughters and a tiny baby Yorkshire Terrier. 

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