Rose Ann Torres has a Ph.D. in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education and Women and Gender Studies from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. Rose is a Lecturer at the Social Justice Education Department of OISE. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of Critical Race and Gender Studies, Transnational Feminisms, Queer Studies; Global Health, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Asian/African/studies.