After completing a B.A. in Anthropology, working as a classroom teacher for 3 years, and earning an M.A. in Comparative and International Education, I have worked as an EiE practitioner for over a decade. l recently completed my Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education, where my dissertation research explored the use of social emotional learning (SEL) with Burundian refugees in Tanzania. I am eager to continue my research to critically interrogate the transnational and multi-cultural diffusion of other pedagogies and approaches like SEL to crisis-affected communities and how these communities experience them, as well as explore how the EiE community can learn from and apply anti-racist and anti-colonial principles in our work. I am thrilled to be joining the Education Policy Studies department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison this coming academic year as a teaching faculty member, where I will teach undergraduate courses on education & human rights and education, wealth, poverty, & inequality. In addition to this, I am excited to help increase ECE SIG membership and engagement, champion critical debate and discourse across our members, and facilitate cross-cultural knowledge exchange.