Wendy Luttrell is Professor in the Urban Education, Sociology and Critical Social/Personality Psychology programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research explores the relationship between larger structures of inequality and individual lives, especially as these are lived out in school settings. She is the author of two award-winning books on this topic, Schoolsmart and Motherwise: Working-Class Women’s Identity and Schooling (1997) and Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds: Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens (2003), and is also the editor of Qualitative Educational Research: Readings on Reflexive Methodology and Transformative Practice (2010). Wendy is principal investigator of the longitudinal visual ethnography project, Children Framing Childhood and Looking Back which examines the role that gender, race, and immigrant status play in how diverse, young people growing up in working-class communities portray their social and emotional worlds.