Meagan Call-Cummings, PhD, is an assistant professor of Qualitative Methods at George Mason University. She specializes in participatory action research (PAR) and other methodologies undergirded by critical, feminist, and participatory theories and pedagogies. She is the co-author (with Kristien Zenkov and Kathleen Cushman) of Fires in Our Lives: Advice for Teachers from Today's High School Students (The New Press).