International Committee Service
Advisory Board Member – Reading Rainbow, 2019
International Literacy Association (ILA)
ILA Resource Collection: Using Culturally Relevant and Responsive Children’s Literature.
Using Culturally Relevant and Responsive Children’s Literature: A K-12 Book List.
National Committee Service
National Council of the Teachers of English (NCTE)
Co-Chair. Early Career Education of Color Program (EC-EOC). National Council of the Teachers for English (NCTE), 2019-Present.
Association for Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER)
Co-Chair. Early Childhood/Elementary Division. Association for Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER), 2021-Present.
Chair. Legislative and Social Issues Committee. Association for Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER), 2019-2022.
Children’s Literature Association (ChLA)
Committee Member. Children’s Literature Association Conference Planning Committee (ChLA), 2021-2022.
Committee Member. Communications Committee. Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), 2021-Present.
Committee Member. Book Award Committee. Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), 2021-Present.
Committee Member. Diversity Committee. Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), 2020-2021.
Ad Hoc Selection Committee Member. Mentoring Award. Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), 2020.
Literacy Research Association (LRA)
Committee Member. Conference Venue Committee. Literacy Research Association (LRA), Summer 2022.
Chair. Ethnicity, Race, and Multilingualism Committee (ERM). Literacy Research Association (LRA), November 2022-2024.
Committee Member. Ad Hoc Committee on Equity and Inclusion. Literacy Research Association (LRA), Summer 2019.
Committee Member. Ethnicity, Race, and Multilingualism Committee (ERM). Literacy Research Association (LRA), November 2018-2021.
American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
Committee Member. Critics’ Choice Book Award Committee. American Educational Studies Association (AESA), 2019-2021.
National Conference Service
Chair. African American Read-In Committee. University of Northern Iowa Task Force, 2019-2021.
Statewide Committee Service
Committee Member. Georgia Reading Association Statewide Family Literacy Committee, Atlanta, Georgia, 2015-2016.
Committee Member. South Carolina Young Adult Book Award Committee. South Carolina Association of School Libraries, 2006-2007.
