Rocio Rivas is a teacher, educational researcher and first-gen doctoral student at Arizona State University. She draws on her five years of expertise as a ninth-grade English teacher in the Phoenix community to foster student engagement, motivation, culturally sustaining practices, and empowering narrative writing practices for the new generation. 

Passionate about storytelling for social transformation, Rivas inspires young writers to embrace the commonalities of the human experience to dispel the misconceptions and stereotypes that divide so many.  Through this students build their civic and personal identity for social transformation!