An elementary school teacher for 17 years, Dr. Khan Vlach earned her Master’s at Texas Woman’s University in Reading Education and her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Khan Vlach’s research interests include critical pedagogy, children’s literature, literature discussions, young children’s reader responses, and inservice teacher education. Her current work employs case study and discourse analysis methodologies in order to examine how three inservice elementary teachers enact critical pedagogy in the context of English language arts instruction with multicultural children’s literature, as well as how these teachers sustain and grow their stance as critical educators in and out of public school. Vlach’s work draws on the conceptual frameworks of Freire’s theory of critical literacy, Kumashiro’s theory of anti-oppressive education, and Brown’s theory of humanizing critical sociocultural knowledge. She looks forward to pursuing future endeavors that explore elementary teachers enacting critical pedagogy in predominantly White spaces, literacy lives of elementary Muslim students, as well as the use and creation of slam poetry with students in elementary school.