Mariana Souto-Manning is associate professor of early childhood education and director of the doctoral program in curriculum and teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. From a critical perspective, she examines in/equities and in/justices in early childhood teaching and teacher education, focusing on issues pertaining to language and literacy practices in pluralistic settings. In her research, she critically considers theoretical and methodological issues and dilemmas of doing research with communities of color. She has published six books, including the 2016 winner of the American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award, Reading, Writing, and Talk: Inclusive Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners, K-2 (with Jessica Martell). Her work can also be found in journals such as Linguistics and Education, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Research in the Teaching of English, and Teachers College Record. She is the recipient of a number of research awards, including the 2011 American Educational Research Association Division K Innovations in Research on Diversity in Teacher Education Award.
Maisha T. Winn (formerly Maisha T. Fisher) is the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis, where she also codirects the Transformative Justice in Education Center. Her work examines the intersections of language, literacy, and youth justice. She has published numerous articles and books including Writing in Rhythm: Spoken Word Poetry in Urban Classrooms; Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; Girl Time: Literacy, Justice and the School-to-Prison Pipeline; and Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Research Methods (coedited with Django Paris). She was awarded the William T. Grant Distinguished Fellowship for her work examining restorative justice in educational contexts and is an American Educational Research Association Fellow.
