Examines public and private writings of low-income, urban, pre-adolescent girls, illuminating ways that girls' voices are often silenced in schools and society.
Brett Elizabeth Blake, Ph.D. is a professor of literacy and TESOL at St. John's University where she is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Vincentian center for Social Justice and Poverty. Having attended SUNY Stony Brook, Northwestern University and the University of IL at Chicago, Brett has worked with and written extensively on the need, globally, for equity in literacy and language acquisition especially among the most vulnerable.
