Dr. Patriann Smith is associate professor at the University of South Florida. Dr. Smith's research considers how literacy teaching, research, assessment, and policy are influenced by the intersection of race, language and (im)migration. She draws from the Black Englishes and languaging of Afro-Caribbean immigrants, other Black immigrants in the United States (i.e., African), and Black American students (i.e., African-American) to propose solutions that advance transraciolinguistic justice in literacy. She also explores the Englishes of Black populations in their English-speaking Caribbean locales to make recommendations for advancing literacy teaching across local, national, and international boundaries. Dr. Smith has proposed solutions such as ‘a transraciolinguistic approach,’ ‘raciosemiotic architecture,’ ‘racialized entanglements’ and the framework for ‘Black immigrant literacies’ to clarify how literacy can be re-envisioned and taught to all students (e.g., monolingual, bilingual, multilingual students) in classrooms. She currently serves as co-PI of the USAID-funded $3.6 million “RISE Caribbean” grant designed to establish an educational research center that enhances research-based decision-making in the Caribbean. Dr. Smith’s research is published in journals such as The Reading Teacher, Reading Research Quarterly, American Educational Research Journal, International Multilingual Research Journal, and Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. She is co-author with Drs. Arlette Willis and Gwendolyn McMillon, of the recently released book, "Affirming Black Students' Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness," and author of the book ‘Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom,” published by Teachers College Press.