Louis. Her research and teaching interests include literacy, youth, and cultural studies in education. Central to her work are sociocultural approaches in examining the changing nature of literacies and media technologies across educational contexts. In the past decade, Jocson has collaborated with university programs, schools, and community-based organizations to promote literacy learning and development among youth. She has published in a number of scholarly journals and is the author of Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies In and Out Schools. She received her Ph.D. in Education in the area of language, literacy, and culture at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed her postdoctoral work at Stanford University School of Education.