Ashley Houston King

Ashley Houston King is a doctoral student at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development studying language and literacy in education. Her research interests include studying the intersections of identities, race, and Blackness in education. She currently works in public middle and high schools where she is interested in studying in- and out-of-school humanizing literacy spaces to better understand how youth navigate injustice systems and work toward collective liberation.

Before beginning her doctoral studies, Ashley taught in a public elementary school for five years, where she was a classroom teacher and reading specialist.

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