Katrina Liu earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with specializations in teacher education and educational leadership and policy analysis. Her longstanding commitment to bridging theory, pedagogy, and practice in preparing educators for equity-oriented teaching in diverse contexts has produced significant scholarship on critical reflection for transformative learning, technology, and digital equity, asset-based understanding of teachers and researchers of color, digital equity for students of color, and critical counter-narrative as methodological and pedagogical frameworks in teacher education.

Dr. Liu’s interdisciplinary work appears in journals such as Review of Research in Education,Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Educational Review, and Education and Urban Society. She is the author of the book Critical Reflection for Transformative Learning (2020, Springer), a research-based guide for teacher educators using ePortfolios to develop critically reflective teachers capable of transformative praxis for educational equity.

Dr. Liu has secured and managed several federal and state grants including two Department of Education Fulbright Group Projects Abroad awards for teacher professional development overseas (PI, 2013; Co-PI, 2017), a National Science Foundation Noyce Grant on STEM teacher education (2023 – 2028, Co-PI), and a Wisconsin outreach grant on next-generation learning models (2013, Co-PI). She has been serving as Secretary of the Division K Teaching and Teacher Educating (2023-2025), Member-at-Large of the SIG Executive Committee (2022-2025), and the Presidential Program Planning Committee (2022-2025) at the American Educational Research Association.