Shalin Lena Raye is a doctoral student in Purdue University’s Curriculum and Instruction program. She earned her Master’s degree in English from Radford University in 2001 and has been teaching in higher education for 18 years. She has taught courses in Multicultural Education, Gender, and Sexuality in Popular Cultural, literature, and composition. Her current research focuses on the role of affect and emotional forms of knowledge as it relates to social justice education, arts-based research methods, and public pedagogy.