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Amy Walker is an assistant professor in middle childhood education and literacy at Kent State University in the School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies. Before receiving her PhD in literacy, culture and language education from Indiana University, she taught middle school English as a second language (ESL), language arts, and humanities in the Midwest, and ESL with resettling refugees in Eastern Europe. Her research disrupts monolithic assumptions of students and geographies by examining the literacies students practice through resistance and activism across community, social media, and school spaces.
As a teacher-educator and researcher, she helps educators and students understand how space and power interact with meaning making across learning spaces. Her current research examines how culturally responsive teaching and planning through community exploration and learning projects impacts preservice teachers. She is a recent honorable mention for the 2022 NCTE Linda Rief Voices From the Middle Award.