Rebeca Burciaga is the Interim Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership & Chicana and Chicano Studies at San José State University. Her research is nested in the nepantla (borderlands) of Education and Chicana/o Studies and focuses on the schooling experiences of Chicanx and Latinx students, families, communities, educators, and leaders from preschool through profession. Her current work focuses on emancipatory approaches to school leadership in a new MA program in Emancipatory School Leadership that she developed at San José State. Dr. Burciaga’s areas of expertise include qualitative methodologies (testimonio & ethnography), critical theories (critical race theory & Chicana feminist theory), and critical pedagogies (testimonio). Dr. Burciaga earned her B.A. from UC Santa Cruz, an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is a co-founder of the Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice. Her research has been supported and recognized by the Spencer Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Institute of Health, and the American Association of University Women. Her most recent scholarship can be found in Educational Administration Quarterly, Equity & Excellence in Education, and the Association of Mexican American Educators Journal. Her true passion is weaving and she earned a Certificado Avanzado de Tejido y Teñido de Textiles from the Instituto Allende in México.