STAR Fellows Session: Navigating the Academy: Voices of Early Career Literacy Scholars of Color - Marcelle Haddix, Syracuse University; Bong Gee Jang, Syracuse University; ThedaMarie Gibbs, Ohio University; April Baker-Bell, Michigan State University; Maneka Deanna Brooks, Texas State University; Lamar Johnson, Miami University; Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University; Ramon Martinez, Stanford University; Jennifer D. Turner, University of Maryland; Eurydice Bauer, University of Illinois; Carmen Kynard, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY; Tonya Perry, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Bonnie Williams Farrier, California State - Fullerton