"Sustaining Disabled Youth will be the first book to bring disability into conversation with asset-based pedagogies and brings together the work of prominent and emerging university and community scholars in disability studies, and those who have made direct and indirect contributions to asset-based pedagogies. The book centers how disability intersects with other markers of difference to create unique cultural repertoires to be valued, sustained, and utilized for learning"--

Federico R. Waitoller is an associate professor in the department of special education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of Excluded by Choice: Urban Students with Disabilities in the Education Marketplace. In 2023 he received the AERA Special and Inclusive Education SIG Distinguished Researcher Award. Kathleen A. King Thorius is an associate professor in Indiana University's School of Education-IUPUI, executive director of the Great Lakes Equity Center, and co-editor of Ability, Equity, and Culture: Sustaining Inclusive Urban Education Reform.