Rossina Zamora Liu, MFA, PhD is an assistant professor in the Urban Education specialization in the College of Education at the University of Maryland (UMD). She has an MFA from the renown Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and a PhD from the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program, both from The University of Iowa. As a multi-ethnic Asian American and a non-Black Critical Race educator, she has worked with artists, film-makers, and b-boys of Color on community-based projects; first-generation college student-athletes; middle/high-school students in urban/rural communities, and veterans at homeless shelters, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and community settings. Her research focuses on interrogating systems of white supremacy and antiblackness in education, counter-storytelling, and cross-racial solidarity and coalition building. She received the 2016 J. Michael Parker Award (Literacy Research Association) for her critical ethnographic essay on humanizing the witnessing of trauma narratives. She is co-author of a forthcoming book Systems of White Supremacy and White Privilege: A Racial-Spatial Framework for Psychology (Oxford University Press) and a guest co-editor of two journal special issues: “Anti-Blackness in English Curriculum, Practice, and Culture” in English Teaching: Practice & Critique (fall 2021), and “Race(ing) towards Futurity: Black and Latinx Youths’ Multimodal Compositions of Future Selves and Literacies” in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (forthcoming/spring 2023). She received the 2021 College of Education Excellence in Teaching Award (UMD) and the 2017 Distinguished Educator Award (UIowa). She is secretary/treasurer for the American Educational Research Association, Special Interest Group: Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender and a member of the Executive Board of the American Folklore Society.