Trish is a licensed K-12 teacher, coach and administrator from Arizona and Indiana where she taught and led ELL adult education, middle and elementary school. She serves as the President of the Indiana Chapter for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. Her research focuses on the intersections between language learning, gender and race and how this informs the identity acts of educators of bilingual students. Guided by critical and feminist thought, she examines how these overlapping identities inform the logics of educational decision making for bilingual students.