Dr. Catherine Lammert is a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Iowa. She earned her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Language and Literacy Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 2019. Her dissertation titled Inquiry, Advocacy, and Practice-Based Research: Transformative Possibilities in Literacy Preservice Teacher Education explored ways to design and scale programs that support new teachers' racial literacy. Her current scholarship focuses on activist literacy teaching across the disciplines and teacher adaptiveness.