11.1 Author’s Note

This chapter was created with selected essays by three student authors: Alexis Castenada-Perez, Christopher Byers, and Carla Medel. The balance of the book consists of either collaborative writing among student authors and myself or my individual writing based on substantive brainstorming and research conducted by the research librarian Michaela Willi-Hooper, the student authors, and myself. When it comes to justice, I want you to read directly the words of students and see what matters to them. Going forward, I will add to this chapter with additions by other students. Following my introduction, each of the individual students will speak to a meaningful aspect of justice, their experience writing the text, and their developing understanding of social justice.

–Elizabeth B. Pearce