Annie Song (she/her/hers) is a second-generation Korean-American educator and literacy advocate from the beautifully diverse San Gabriel Valley. Currently, she is an adjunct faculty member teaching Reading Methods courses to pre-service teachers at CSU Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Annie is also a student pursuing her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership at Cal Poly Pomona with a research focus on teacher positionality, preparation, and development in teaching literacy in multicultural and multilingual communities. She has been a classroom teacher in both mainstream and dual-language TK-8th grade settings and a literacy and reading specialist for 15 years. She transitioned to teacher preparation in higher education with the goal of contributing to transforming how to prepare diverse teacher candidates for the diverse student population in California- specifically developing access and inclusion to equitable and responsive literacy instruction and practices. She received her BA in Liberal Studies at UC Riverside and earned her MS in Education (Reading) at CSU Fullerton. She is honored to be part of the EAC and among so many educational changemakers.