About the Editors

Andrew Garrod is a professor emeritus at Dartmouth College, where he previously chaired the Department of Education, directed the Teacher Education Program, and taught courses in adolescence, moral development, and contemporary issues in U.S. education. He currently directs a teaching volunteer program in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific and has conducted a research project in Bosnia and Herzegovina over a number of years. His recent publications include the coedited books Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories, Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories, and the seventh edition of Adolescent Portraits: Identity, Relationships, and Challenges. With Robert Kilkenny, he has coedited an anthology on growing up Muslim. In 1991 and 2009 he was awarded Dartmouth College’s Distinguished Teaching Award.

Robert Kilkenny is a clinical associate in the School of Social Work at Simmons College in Boston. He is coeditor of Souls Looking Back: Life Stories of Growing Up Black, Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories, Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories, and Adolescent Portraits: Identity, Relationships, and Challenges, which is in its seventh edition. With Andrew Garrod, he has coedited an anthology about growing up Muslim. He is the founder and executive director of the Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention, a public-private partnership providing school-based mental health, special education, and after-school programs to at-risk students in the Boston public schools.

Christina Gómez is a professor of sociology and Latino and Latin American studies at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University. She has received numerous prizes and fellowships, including the Henry Luce Scholars Fellowship. Her research has concentrated on racial identity construction in the United States, discrimination, and immigration. She is the author of articles that focus on such topics as skin color discrimination among Latinos, the construction of Latino identity, and the politics of bilingual education. She is also one of the editors of Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories (2007), a book of essays written by students about growing up Latino in this country. Her current research examines undocumented immigrant university students.

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