Marcelle Haddix is a Dean’s Associate Professor and Chair of the Reading and Langauge Arts Center in the School of Education. She is a core faculty member in the Renée Crown University Honors Program, an affiliated faculty member in Women's and Gender Studies, a member of the Democratizing Knowledge Core Team, and she holds a courtesy faculty appointment in Cultural Foundations of Education. Her scholarly interests center on the experiences of students of color in literacy and English teaching and teacher education. She also directs the Writing Our Lives project, a program geared toward supporting the writing practices of urban youth within and beyond school contexts.