Lindsey Pike, M.S.W., is a Doctoral Candidate in the Exceptional Education Track of the College of Community Innovation and Education at the University of Central Florida. She currently serves as a researcher on a federally funded Teacher Quality Partnerships preparation grant project and teaches special education courses to undergraduate education majors. Ms. Pike is a published author of several peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and has presented at numerous international, national, and state conferences. Her research and scholarship centers on teacher preparation, equitable and inclusive practices, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Ms. Pike's work has a particular focus on the intersectionality of disability and other identity markers in education, the disproportionality of culturally and linguistically diverse students in special education, and social justice dispositions in teacher education.(52d550f9-46c3-4d81-a60c-52dfe1bb4de0)