Dr. Dora Ramirez-Dhoore earned her Ph.D. in Ethnic Literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2003, and has been on the faculty of the Department of English at Boise State University since 2006. Dr. Ramirez-Dhoore's research, teaching, and service works to bring textual knowledge, literacy, and the power attached to those ways of knowing to underrepresented populations. Her research engages issues of production and consumption of texts tied to global and transnational perspectives of audience. Her work also incorporates ideas of nation-building while examining the internalization of socio-political global affects within the Latina/o population. Dr. Ramirez-Dhoore is active in local events, as a speaker, coordinator, and moderator, and also serves as a leader in national professional organizations. She has served on the Executive Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (2007-2010), and is currently a member and liaison to the NCTE/CCCC’s Executive Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession (2010-2013).