Wendy Luttrell is a professor of Urban Education and Social-Personality Psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She studies the process of self and identity formation and transformation in school settings and how gender, race, class, and sexuality systems of inequality take root in young people’s self-evaluations and actions. 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). Her current longitudinal projects, Children Framing Childhoods and Looking Back, examine 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. Throughout her career, Luttrell has directed community-based, university, and teacher inquiry projects dedicated to advancing affective, moral, and social justice in and around schools and that promote innovative research and teaching practices.