The Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege and these auto-ethnographic collections serve as an impetus for the untold stories of millions of marginalized people who may find solace here and in the stories of others who are of mixed identity.

Ellis Hurd, Ed.D. (2008), is Professor of Education at Illinois State University. He has published on education, equity and cultural responsiveness, and mixed identities, and is co-editor of Equity and Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades (Information Age Publishing, 2019).