Amy Bach holds an M.A. in TESOL from Columbia University Teachers College and is currently an Ed.D. Candidate in Literacy Studies in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include: media and multimodal literacy theory; localized, independent media outlets; youth-produced documentaries as social commentaries and teaching tools; and the role of visual images in community mobilization and activism. In the spring of 2007, she served as a Research Consultant for Critical Exposure, a non-profit organization in Washington, D.C., which teaches young people photography in order to document the disparities that exist between resourced and under-resourced public schools, and to use photographs to advocate for equitable school funding. She has also co-authored several articles and reports published by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, where she worked for four years on several qualitative and quantitative research projects that focused on literacy initiatives and high school students' perceptions of "good work" and motivation in the current standards and accountability climate.