Tammy Ellis Robinson, PhD is an assistant professor co-appointed in the Division of Special Education and Educational Psychology and Methodology, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at the University at Albany. Prior to joining the faculty, she was a special education teacher for students with a range of disabilities in an urban high school and worked in theater education with adults and children with and without disabilities through the Arts Center of the Capital Region and the Center for Disabilities and the ARC of Rensselaer County. As a member of the faculty in the Division of Special Education, Tammy teaches a number of methods courses for pre-service special education candidates.   Her research and community engagement efforts and interests include empowering student, teacher, and community voices through writing and write to learn instructional methods, equity and social justice across the lifespan.  She has been a member of CEC since 2011, serves on the New York State Executive Committee and is excited to join DDEL’s leadership team.