She also teaches courses in the English Education and African American and African Studies programs.Dr. Baker-Bell’s research examines how African American youth construct their linguistic, cultural, and racial identities in relation to dominant language ideologies. Her research also explores how classroom instruction and counter-hegemonic pedagogies can be leveraged to support African American youth in constructing positive and transformative understandings of their linguistic and racial identities. Dr. Maneka Deanna Brooks, Texas State University Mentor: Dr. Eurydice Bauer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign