Youb Kim is Associate Professor of Reading in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Northern Colorado. She received a Ph.D. in curriculum, teaching, and educational policy from Michigan State University. She is a member of the International Reading Association's Helen M. Robinson Grant Committee and is on the editorial board of "Reading and Writing Quarterly". She formerly served as a managing editor for the "National Reading Conference Yearbook" and as a member of the Urban Diversity Initiative Commission of the International Reading Association.