MELISA “Misha” CAHNMANN-TAYLOR is Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia. She is the winner of a 2013-2014 Fulbright to write in Oaxaca, Mexico as well as Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes and a Leeway Poetry Grant. She has co-authored two books, Teachers Act Up: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre and Arts-Based Research in Education and has published numerous articles, and poetry about language learning and teacher education which can be found at her blog.