Luis Javier Pentón Herrera currently serves as Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw, Poland, in the Department of Modern Languages and The Institute of Applied Linguistics. His current research focuses on social-emotional learning (SEL), emotions, and well-being in language and literacy education, Indigenous students from Latin America, immigrant and refugee education, and autoethnography and storytelling. Gilda Martínez-Alba is the Assistant Dean at the College of Education at Towson University, Maryland, USA. Her research interests include English language teacher wellness, asset-based literacy instruction for multilingual learners, and social-emotional learning. Ethan Trinh is a Vietnamese immigrant, activist, feminist, writer, queer researcher, and teacher educator pursuing their doctorate at the Middle and Secondary Education Department, Georgia State University, USA. Their research interests are autoethnography, storytelling, queer studies, and new materialism in English language teaching.
