About the Contributors

Crista K. Banks is a graduate assistant at the University of South Florida where she teaches and supervises elementary education students. Ms. Banks is currently working on her PhD in curriculum and instruction in elementary education at the University of South Florida. Her research interests include global issues regarding girls’ education and she is currently writing her dissertation on using art as a medium for communicating identity in undervalued groups of girls.

Michael D. Bartone, PhD, is an assistant professor of elementary education at Central Connecticut State University. His work focuses on the intersections of race and sexuality in school. Of particular interest is how these identities are formed from experiences in school and how one’s pedagogy and how what is (not) included in the classroom informs how one understands their intersecting identities.