Karis Jones (Ph.D.) is an educator, literacy consultant, public humanities scholar, and community activist, as well as Assistant Professor of English Language Arts at Empire State University - SUNY. She studies issues of equity in literacies learning and writing across disciplinary, fandom, and gaming spaces. She has been published in the Journal of Literacy Research, Equity & Excellence in Education; Journal of Language & Literacy Education, Linguistics and Education, English Teaching: Practice & Critique, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education -- English Education, and English Journal. She is the recipient of the 2022 Shelby Wolf Award from the AERA Literature SIG and serves on the executive board of AERA's Writing & Literacies SIG.