Adela C. Licona is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona. She is a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the UA Institute for LGBT Studies. She is affiliated faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies, Mexican American Studies, the Institute of the Environment, and the Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth, and Families. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include cultural, visual, gender, and sexuality studies, critical theory, social justice media, community literacies, action-oriented research, borderlands studies, environmental justice, and place-based and feminist pedagogy. She has published in such journals as Antipode, Transformations, Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies, Community Literacy Journal, National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, Nóesis, and Kairos, has co-authored numerous community research briefs, and has publications forthcoming in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers and Peitho. Adela is author of Zines In Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric (SUNY Press, 2012) and co-editor of Feminist Pedagogy: Looking Back to Move Forward (JHUP, 2009). She is co-founder of the Crossroads Collaborative and of Feminist Action Research in Rhetoric (FARR), a group of progressive feminist scholars engaged in public scholarship and community dialogue. She is Editor Emeritus of Feminist Formations and serves on the board for Women’s Studies in Communication (WISC), QED: A Journal of GLBTQ Worldmaking, and Spoken Futures / Tucson Youth Poetry Slam. Adela is the 2015 and 2016 Co-Chair of the National Women’s Studies Association Conference.