Mia Hood is a literacy consultant, curriculum designer, academic writing coach, and writer based in New York. She received her doctorate in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College Columbia University, where she studied multimodal literacy; sociocultural and critical perspectives on literacy; and poststructural feminist approaches to curriculum and pedagogy. Her writing about curriculum, teaching, and literacy has appeared in The Journal of Multicultural Education, Education Week, HuffPost, and on Heinemann’s blog. Mia has presented scholarly work at conferences for the International Literacy Association, Literacy Research Association, and American Educational Studies Association.