Jeanette Haynes Writer, Ph.D

Dr. Haynes Writer is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education, New Mexico State University. Her areas of specialization include Tribal Critical Race Theory; critical multicultural education; social justice education; Indigenous education; Native American identity and teacher education.

Susana Ibarra Johnson, Ph.D

Dr. Ibarra Johnson is an assistant professor of Bilingual/TESOL Education at New Mexico State University. Her commitment to improving the education of bilingual students is grounded in her experience as a bilingual learner and teacher. Her research focuses on the implementation of translanguaging pedagogy (stance, design, and shifts) in bilingual education and English language development contexts to better serve emergent bilingual students.

Violet Henderson, Ph.D

Dr. Henderson a College Assistant Professor and the Clinical Director of the Early Childhood Education Program in the School of Teacher Preparation, Administration, and Leadership. She taught at the elementary school level for almost ten years before entering higher education and considers herself a teacher at heart. Dr. Henderson collaborates with preservice and in-service teachers within the Teacher Education Program, the Bilingual Education/TESOL Program, and the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program. Her teaching and research interests include literacy portraiture, multiliteracies, family literacy, community cultural wealth, funds of knowledge, and translanguaging. She has published in The Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, The Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and other academic journals. Dr. Henderson is a proud NMSU alumna.

Kimberly Knox, Ph.D

Dr. Knox, LCSW is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at New Mexico State University.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Western Connecticut State University, and a MSW that focused on family therapy in a multicultural setting from NMSU, and a Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in Special Education, with a focus on Multicultural Education in 2021.  Before coming to NMSU, Dr. Knoxwas an assistant professor at New Mexico Highlands University.  Since Dr. Knox graduated with her MSW in 2005, she has focused most of her work as a special education social worker in New Mexico supporting exceptional students in schools. Dr. Knox has worked extensively with families as a family therapist in the community with various agencies, worked as an In-Home services provider with CYFD and as a Home study practitioner.  Dr. Knox is a board-certified clinical supervisor and a level 3 school social workers.  Her clinical experiences include providing group therapy, private practice, and acute care.  Dr. Knox is passionate about advocacy, especially as it pertains to disability and neuro-divergence. She has taught across the curriculum in the BSW and MSW programs including social work practice, Human Behavior in the Social Environment, and group practice.

Natalie Martinez, Ph.D

Dr. Martinez, K’awaika-meh, Laguna Pueblo (she/ella/k’uu), is a professional educator. She was a principal and teacher at her Pueblo Nation; she taught middle schoolers and high schoolers in New Mexico before serving as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of New Mexico and full-time faculty at Central NM Community College. Currently, Dr. Martinez serves as Assistant Professor at NM State University in the School of Teacher Preparation, Administration, and Leadership. Dr. Martinez’s collaborations on Indigenous-centered curriculum projects include: Indigenous Wisdom; Indigenous New Mexico; the curriculum guides: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People; Indigenous Ingenuity; and Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills.   Her chapters appear in Luminous Literacies and The Yazzie Case: Interrogating the Yazzie/Martinez Lawsuit. She has written and interviewed for the International Journal for Adolescent and Adult Literacy. Additionally, her teacher professional development work with the OER Project is available online.

Loana Mason, Ph.D

Dr. Mason has been the Director of the Visual Impairment Program at New Mexico State University since the summer of 2012.  She earned both her M.A. in Special Education: Visual Impairment in 1994 and her Ed.D. with an emphasis in Special Education and a minor in Applied Statistics and Research methods in 2012 from the University of Northern Colorado.  Prior to her doctoral work, she taught orientation and mobility and all other areas of expanded core curriculum to children and youth with visual impairments in both public schools and residential schools.