Noreen Naseem Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of Elementary Education and Educational Justice in the Department of Teacher Education and core faculty in the Asian Pacific American Studies program at Michigan State University. Her research engages critical race frameworks to explore the pedagogical practices of Asian American educators and the teaching of so-called difficult histories through children's literature and primary sources. She has published over three dozen peer-reviewed book chapters and articles in scholarly and practitioner journals such as Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Children's Literature, Social Studies and the Young Learner, and Literacy Today and is co-author of Social Studies for a Better World: An Anti-Oppressive Approach for Elementary Educators with Katy Swalwell and the forthcoming Teaching Asian America in Elementary Classrooms with Sohyun An and Esther Kim. Before becoming a teacher educator, Noreen was a bilingual elementary teacher in Austin, Texas for nine years.