v About the Authors Amy Lee is inspired by Gloria Anzaldúa’s call to “do work that matters,” and by Dr. Angela Davis’s words, “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” Amy is a Morse Distinguished Professor at the University of Minnesota and serves as Director of the First Year Writing Program and Director of Faculty Engagement for the College of Art’s Career Readiness initiative. Her publications include eight books and numerous articles focused on undergraduate teaching, learning, and the first-year experience. Her specialization is pedagogy and faculty development that centers on equity and access. Amy has taught first-year writing and basic writing, community engaged learning, U.S. literature, multicultural literature, and various graduate seminars. She is a recipient of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Distinguished Teaching Award and the University of Minnesota’s Morse Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education. Margaret Delehanty Kelly is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Family Social Sciences at the University of Minnesota. Margaret has an M.A. in English as a Second Language and has spent the last 17 years teaching at the University, 11 of those teaching courses in the First Year Experience program in the College of Education and Human Development. She is currently the Training and Development Coordinator for the instructors of the First Year Experience course. She loves working with first-year students on challenging and critical issues. Catherine Lee is an undergraduate student at Occidental College majoring in History and minoring in Cognitive Science and East Asian Studies. She hopes to attend graduate school in the future. Some of her most formative experiences have come from studying abroad in China and South Korea, experiencing nature during her childhood in Minnesota, and traveling with her family. She is pas- sionate about education, history, and food. Maggie Bergeron is a Lecturer in the Dance Program at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches courses on Dance Pedagogy, Dance Production, and Career Readiness. She has spent the past two decades working as a profes- sional dancer, choreographer, curator, and teacher. As a first-generation college graduate, she is committed to helping students navigate their own college experi- ences with plenty of tools and resources they can then take with them the rest of their lives. Maggie graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy, holds a B.F.A. in Dance and an M.A. in Teaching, and is a licensed K-12 Dance Instructor.