Dr. Lakeya Afolalu is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington in the College of Education. As a scholar of Language, Literacy, and Culture, she specializes in the intersections of immigration, race, and identity.

Former Sociology and CREO graduate student Andrew Hoyt is the founding Head of the Portage School of Leaders in South Bend. PSL is chartered through Trine University and is a part of the Career High School/Middle School network in South Bend, Indiana.

Neil Boothby—professor and director of the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC)—recently joined the GC-DWC’s Communications Associate, Brooke Parker, for a conversation on creating pathways out of adversity for children living on the margins of society, with a specific look

Mike Macaluso, Senior Associate Director for Academic Advancement for Enrollment and Financial Aid, has been named senior editor of The ALAN Review, a peer-reviewed journal focused on the study, scholarship, research, and teaching of adolescent literature.

Kelly Barnhill’s The Ogress and the Orphans (2022), an engaging fantasy with familiar elements of a traditional fairy tale such as a dragon, an ogress, and magic, has been selected as the winner of the 2024 Alexandria Award by the Center for Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame.