Mary Sefranek is a Linguistics/Applied Linguistics Professor at the University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus. She received her Ed.D from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2006. Her research areas include Bilingual/Bicultural Education, Emergent Bilingual Learners, English Education, K-12 Public Education in Puerto Rico, Latinx Studies in English Education, Multiliteracies and Multimodality Theorizing and Practice, and Queer Studies in Education.