The Literacy for Social Justice Teacher Research Group Author

Rebecca Rogers is Associate Professor of Literacy at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her research focuses on language, identity, and power in and out of school contexts.

Melissa Mosley is Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on critical literacy learning across the lifespan, particularly how teachers and students together use literacy practices toward social action in and out of the classroom.

Mary Ann Kramer is Coordinator for Adult Education and Literacy in the St.

Louis Public Schools. Prior to this position, she served as Director of the Southside

Women’s Center, a community-based women’s resource center.

The Literacy for Social Justice Teacher Research Group is a grassroots, teacher-led professional development group dedicated to exploring and acting on the relationships between literacy and social justice.