Bea Staley is a lecturer in Special Education and Inclusion, and teaches a variety of classes in the School of Education. Bea has her PhD in Multicultural Equity Studies in Education from The Ohio State University. Her research interests broadly relate to diversity and difference; she studies children and youth in context of their families and communities. Her dissertation research involved rural teenagers and digital storytelling as a classroom practice. Bea’s work uses qualitative methodologies, such as narrative inquiry, to explicate the more nuanced features of lived experiences.