Katy Swalwell Author & Editor

Noreen Naseem Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Learning, Research, and Practice at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She engages critical race frameworks to explore Asian American educational experiences, diverse children's literature, and the teaching of difficult histories to young people. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed and practitioner journals including Theory & Research in Social Education, The International Journal of Multicultural Education, Social Studies & the Young Learner, Literacy Today, and School Library Journal. Before becoming a teacher educator, she was a bilingual elementary educator in Texas for nine years. Katy Swalwell is Lead Equity Specialist for the Equity Literacy Institute and founder of Past Present Future Media & Consulting. A former classroom teacher and tenured university professor, she explores how social studies education can help people of all ages become better at identifying and disrupting oppression. In addition to publishing research in peer-reviewed journals, practitioner magazines, and other academic books, she has created the Amazing Iowa children’s book series (amazingiowa.com) and co-hosts an irreverent history podcast called Our Dirty Laundry, which examines white women’s complicity in white supremacy.