Yon Hui Bell has been teaching at San Antonio College since 2010 and has taught inthe Catch the Next-Ascender Program since 2018. She primarily teaches the co-requisite English courses and coordinates the INRW tutoring center. After earning her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in English Literature from the University of Texas at San Antonio, she spent a year in Japan teaching English and four years in El Salvador working in adult literacy. Her time in El Salvador introduced her to the pedagogy of the Brazilian educator Paolo Freire, and she has since worked in a variety of institutions with students of all ages sharing her passionate belief in the power of literacy as a tool for personal and social growth.