Dr. Amy Boniface is the Education Program Director for the Bachelor's Degree in Elementary and Special Education at Paradise Valley Committee College, in Arizona. She teaches a variety of teacher preparation courses including Literacy, Science Methods, Curriculum, Assessment, and Foundations of Education. Her research interests include using the Narrative Research Methodology to explore experiences of teachers integrating technology into their curriculum and instructional strategies. Currently, Amy is working with Dr. Vicki Ross on research involving experiences of beginning teachers and teacher candidates who enter the classroom full time before they are credentialed. In the AERA Narrative Research SIG, she has served as Secretary, Chair Elect, and proposal reviewer for the Narrative Research SIG and is proud to be the current Chair. Amy strives to support the SIG in creating a strong Narrative Research Community.
Dr. Min Wang is an Associate Professor in Inclusive Education at Houghton University. Her research interests include narrative analysis, multimodality and semiotics, second language acquisition, positioning and agency, teacher education, multilingualism, and linguistic racism. Over the past years, she has productively conducted high-quality research and published widely, including one book, 16 articles, and three book chapters. Her articles have appeared in various journals, such as TESOL Quarterly, The Journal of Educational Research, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, and Journal of Multilingual Education Research. Her book, Multimodalities and Chinese students’ L2 practices: Positioning, agency, and community, explored the complicated interactions among multimodality, positioning, and agency in increasingly digitized, multilingual, and multicultural contexts in and through which Chinese international students practiced their L2 literacies. Dr. Wang has been an AERA member since 2014. She served as a member of the Narrative SIG Outstanding Dissertation Committee in 2019 at AERA and is now proud to serve as chair-elect.
As Director of Learning Adventures Child Care Centre, Dr. Eliza Pinnegar has continued her work exploring the experiences of children. She began her research journey while earning her undergraduate degree, presenting at conferences as well as being published for that work. After working with first graders she went on to graduate school, working with Dr. D. Jean Clandinin. She attended community events at AERA. Her focus has been on school age children and their families experiences inside school settings and outside. She has a passion for, and has been an active member of the Narrative Research community. She has enjoyed serving in informal and formal capacities, advising budding narrative researchers, reviewing for journals, serving as program Chair narrative articles and contributing to the overall knowledge of the field.
Meghan L. Green, EdD is an Assistant Professor at Erikson Institute in Chicago, IL. As an arts-based qualitative researcher, she uses multiple modes of creative representation to reflect on her positionality and to craft her story as a cis Black queer woman engaging in critically informed research methodologies within this time and space. Dr. Green’s scholarship centers Black feminist thought and endarkened feminist epistemology within early childhood settings, specifically highlighting the diverse lived experiences of Black early childhood educators through arts-based qualitative inquiry methods including, but not limited to, narrative inquiry, autoethnography, endarkened narrative inquiry, photovoice, and poetic inquiry. Her scholarly works have been published in journals such as Equity & Excellence in Education, Journal of African American Women and Girls in Education, The Critical Social Educator, Early Childhood Education Journal, and Ethnic Studies Pedagogies.
Dr. Simmee Chung is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at Concordia University of Edmonton in Canada. Simmee has over 20 years of teaching and teacher leadership experience in K-12 and post-secondary school contexts. As a narrative inquirer, Simmee has engaged in numerous research collaborations, presentations, and publications alongside national and international colleagues. She was a recipient of the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Education Outstanding Dissertation Award for her SSHRC funded study. Simmee has also received other generous grants and teaching awards. In research and in life, Simmee continually strives to attend to the experiences of often marginalized populations including children and families of color, immigrants, and Indigenous youth and families. Dr. Chung is thrilled to serve as the Program Chair-Elect to support educators and scholars with diverse narrative research and that are at all stages of their personal and professional journeys.
Dr. Sumer Seiki is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan School of Education. She has served in education for over twenty years. Dr. Seiki won the 2020 American Education Research Association Early Career Award from the Narrative SIG for her contributions to teacher education and interdisciplinary research. Through her theory of Transformative Curriculum Making, she explores the intersections of ethnic studies, storytelling, art, systemic inequalities, science education, teacher education and narrative inquiry. Recently, at the University of California, Riverside School of Education, she was the Assistant Dean and Director of Teacher Education Programs. In this role, she directed the teacher education credential programs and partnered with local school districts. Dr. Seiki has a breadth of knowledge of teacher credentialing, from her elementary teaching experience to over a decade of teaching credential courses. She is dedicated to partnering with teachers to create more inclusive schools and classrooms.
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