Dr. Tracey T. Flores is an associate professor of language and literacy at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Flores is the founder of Somos Escritoras, a community-based creative writing, art, and storytelling space for Latina girls (grades 6–8). Somos Escritoras invites Latina girls to write, create, and share stories from their lived experiences while building community, strengthening their voices as writers and storytellers, and creating positive self-identities.
August 10, 2026 Dear Fellow Educators and Storytellers, I sit here at my kitchen table, the bright summer sun filtering through my window, a stack of books next to my computer. As I sit here to write this letter to you, I picture you receiving it in...