Before becoming a professor, Dr. Yvonne El Ashmawi was a secondary English instructor for more than a decade.  She has also served as a teacher educator in several contexts both at home and abroad.  Her research focuses on learning from marginalized communities about their experiences in public schools, how they enact their own agency, and how schools can become spaces of support for all students.  She is also interested in employing testimonio as both research methodology and classroom pedagogy.  Her content area focus is middle and secondary English education from a social justice framework.  As clinical assistant professor at Loyola University’s School of Education, she teaches in Teaching, Learning, & Leading with Schools & Communities.