Dr. Caraballo is an assistant professor of English education in the Department of Secondary Education and Youth Services at Queens College - CUNY, where she currently teaches methods courses and graduate seminars in the English education program. She received her doctorate from the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she was a General Research Fellow. She was also a Cultivating New Voices among Researchers of Color Research Fellow of the National Council of Teachers of English, 2010-2012, and is currently a Junior Faculty Research Fellow at the Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Teachers College - Columbia University. Her research interests include students’ multiple identities and literacies, academic achievement, and teaching English in diverse sociocultural contexts. As a former English teacher, administrator, and consultant in public and private secondary schools, she is especially interested in culturally sustaining and socially just literacy curricula and pedagogies. The key purposes of her work include complicating conversations about students of color and curriculum, reframing deficit conceptions of lower-income students of color, and advancing the theory and development of curricula that supports the academic success and multiple identity construction of minoritized students. Her work has been published in the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, the International Journal of Multicultural Education, and the Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education.