Cecilia Espinosa, received her PhD from Arizona State University. As an immigrant from Ecuador, Espinosa started her journey in education as a teacher assistant, bilingual-multiage K-2nd grade teacher, and a dual language program director in Phoenix, Arizona. Espinosa’s research focus includes collaborative research, bilingual children’s writing, translanguaging, descriptive processes, and children’s literature that affirms and nurtures multiple identities. She is an affiliated faculty member of the New York City Writing Project (NYCWP) and a member of the Descriptive Inquiry Philosophy Study Group. Espinosa is the new chair of the Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Children’s Literature in Fiction (National Council of Teachers of English). Espinosa served as an associate investigator of the City University of New York (CUNY) New York State Initiative Emergent Bilinguals (CUNY NYSIEB), and currently, through CUNY-IIE, she is supporting schools to reimagine policies to serve immigrant-origin students and their families better. She co-led the New York State Education Department Best Practices for Multilingual Learners Project and Next Generation Learning Standards (NGLS). She co-authored the book Rooted in Strength: Using Translanguaging to Grow Multilingual Readers and Writers (Scholastic, 2021).