Ashley Houston–King is a Ph.D. student at Boston University studying Language and Literacy in Education. Her research interests include studying the intersections of identities, race, and Blackness in education. As a former elementary teacher and reading specialist, she is interested in studying in-and-out-of-school humanizing literacy spaces to better understand how youth navigate injustice systems and work towards collective liberation.
Students will identify key details in reading to apply while writing an informational text.