Casey Medlock Paul is an adult and online learning specialist at the Justice Research and Statistics Association. She earned her Ph.D. in Literacy and English Language Arts from the College of Education at North Carolina State University and received the first-place award for outstanding dissertation at the Graduate Student Research Symposium in 2018. Her research focuses on critical literacy pedagogy, disciplinary literacy, and English Language Learners. Before receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Paul taught high school Spanish in Alabama.