A former public school middle and secondary teacher for thirteen years in Maryland, she works to examine intersections of theory and practice in today’s classrooms. Her scholarship has appeared in Journal of Media Literacy in Education, English Journal, Language Arts, The ALAN Review, International Journal of ePortfolio, Reading in Virginia, Educational Practice and Reform, Writing & Pedagogy, English Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Literacy and Technology, and Contemporary Issues in Teacher Education. Her research interests include socially just teacher education, adolescent literacy, content literacy, and the effective and equitable integration of emerging digital literacies within K-12 education.