Dr. Stephanie Troutman Robbins she/her) is a Black feminist scholar, mother and first-generation college student. She is the Department Head of Gender Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona and she is Associate Professor of Emerging Literacies in Rhetoric, Composition the Teaching of English. English. She is a formally affiliated faculty member in Africana Studies, Teaching, Learning Sociocultural Studies, Africana Studies and the LGBT Institute. She received a dual PhD in Curriculum Instruction and Women’s Studies from the Pennsylvania State University in 2011. A former high school and middle grades public school teacher, Stephanie is a scholar-activist who has been recognized across a variety of community and campus spaces for her mentorship, student advocacy, and social justice leadership. Her passion is working with marginalized students in the university setting at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. She is the recipient of the UA Likins Award 2017) the Student Affairs Faculty Impact Award 2017) and the Dr. Maria Teresa Velez Outstanding Mentor Award 2019) Stephanie is also an alum of the University of Arizona’s Academic LeadershiInstitute 2017-18 cohort) and she currently serves as the Chair of the University of Arizona Faculty Senate’s Diversity, Equity Inclusion Committee. Dr. Troutman Robbins is the former director of two outreach projects between the University of Arizona and Tucson schools: Wildcat Writers 2015- 2020) and and the Southern Arizona Writing Project 2015-2020. These partnershiprograms serve the local community by focusing on Title 1 schools and providing them with opportunities for professional development, academic resources, and programming rooted in diversity, equity and inclusion through writing. Her research interests include literacies focused on social justice, feminist pedagogy, critical race theory, film studies, Black feminist theory, schooling, identity/ies and education. She is co-author of the 2018 book, Narratives of Family Assets, Community Gifts, Cultural Endowments: Re-Imagining the Invisible Knapsack Lexington Press) and co-editor of the forthcoming book, Race Ethnicity in US Television ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press) scheduled for publication in Spring 2021. Her research has been published in the Journal of Girlhood Studies GHS) the Journal of Race Ethnicity Education REE) Meridians: Feminism, Race and Transnationalism, Taboo: the Journal of Culture and Education, and in the Journal of Literacy Social Responsibility.