Karin Ann Lewis is an associate professor in the Teaching & Learning Department at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). Following a teaching career in public education, she earned her Ph.D. in Educational and Counseling Psychology from the University of Kentucky. Dr. Lewis teaches courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels in Educational Psychology (in the areas of cognition, learning, and human development, adult learning theory), writing for inquiry, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her scholarly focus explores complexities of identity and agency from a social justice perspective intended to challenge the status quo and open transdisciplinary discourses. She seeks ways to transcend traditional educational paradigms through transformative, culturally responsive pedagogies. Dr. Lewis’s scholarship is grounded in qualitative, collaborative, collective ethnographic methodologies.