Caroline Manion, Ph.D. (2011), University of Toronto, is a Lecturer at OISE, University of Toronto. Her research has been supported by a variety of agencies and organizations, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the International Development Research Centre of Canada and the Canadian International Development Agency (now Global Affairs Canada). Her published research includes Power, Kknowledge and Politics: Exploring the Contested Terrain of Girl-Focused Interventions at the National Launch of the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative in the Gambia (Sage, 2012). Emily Anderson, Ph.D. (2016), Pennsylvania State University, is a Visiting Assistant Professor of International and Intercultural Education at Florida International University and, currently, a Visiting Scholar with the Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research. Dr. Anderson was a co-founding editor of the Annual Review of Comparative and International Education (Emerald Press) and her published work includes The Ethics of Representing Girls in Digital Policy Spaces (Berghahn Books, 2016). Supriya Baily, Ph.D. (2008), George Mason University, is an Associate Professor of International and comparative education, qualitative research methods, and teacher education courses at George Mason University. Dr. Baily is the co-editor of Experiments in Agency: A Global Partnership to Transform Teacher Research (Sense Publishers, 2017), Educating Adolescent Girls around the Globe: Challenges and Opportunities (Routledge, 2015), and Internationalizing Teacher Education in the US (Rowman & Littlefied, 2012). Meagan Call-Cummings, Ph.D. (2015), Indiana University, Bloomington is an Assistant Professor of Qualitative Methodology at George Mason University. Dr. Call-Cummings focuses on critical, feminist, and participatory forms of inquiry. Her writing often takes up themes around the ethics and validity of knowledge creation, such as her recent publication, Establishing Communicative Validity: Discovering Theory through Practice (Sage, 2017). Radhika Iyengar, Ph.D. (2011), Teachers College, Columbia University, is an Associate Research Scholar at the Center for the Sustainable Development, Earth Institute, Columbia University. Her recent publication is an edited volume on Participatory Action Research and Educational Development: South Asian Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Payal Shah, Ph.D (2011), Indiana University is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations and Qualitative Inquiry at the University of South Carolina. She conducts critical ethnographic research on gender, education and development in India and has published across the field of international and comparative education, qualitative inquiry, and women's and gender studies, including Writing against Culture: Unveiling Education and Modernity for Hindu Indian and Muslim Pakistani Women through an 'Ethnography of the Particular' (Taylor and Francis, 2018). Matthew A. Witenstein, Ph.D. (2015) Claremont Graduate University, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton. He is co-editor of book series South Asian Education Policy, Research and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan) and author of numerous peer reviewed articles and book chapters, including A Quantitative Study of Cultural Conflict and Gender Differences in South Asian American College Students (Routledge, 2014).
