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

Taking a humanizing approach to literacy, Ashley hopes to support educators in cultivating the genius that already exists within students (Muhammad, 2020). She hopes to support asset-based literacy learning with the understanding that students already have rich experiences that should be built upon. In addition to working with youth to unpack identities, literacies, and histories, Ashley hopes to bring her experiences with young people into conversations with educational policymakers to disrupt anti-Blackness and other inequitable systems in education.

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