Dr. Michelle Hall Kells is a Professor at the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. Kells teaches courses in Chicana/o/x environmentalisms, mujerista activism, and environmental justice as well as ethnolinguistic diversity and linguistic equity education. Kells has published more than forty articles, chapters, and essays focusing on rhetoric and ecology, transcultural literacy, and Cold War Mexican American civil rights activism. Kells’ two single author monographs include Héctor P. García: Everyday Rhetoric and Mexican American Civil Rights (2006) and Vicente Ximenes, LBJ’s Great Society, and Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric (2018). Her collaborative publications include a co-edited volume with Laura Gonzales, Latina Leadership: Language and Literacy Education Across Communities (2022) which received the 2023 Outstanding Book Award by the Conference of College Composition and Communications. Kells served as lead editor for Latino/a Discourses: On Language, Identity, and Literacy Education with Valerie Balester and Victor Villanueva (2004) and Attending to the Margin: Writing, Researching and Teaching on the Front Lines (1999). Kells recently completed a new monograph, Rhetoric of Embodiment: Mujerista Activism, Environmental Imagination, and the Mining of the Salt of the Earth (forthcoming Penn State University Press).