 Alicia is an ELL teacher at Amherst Regional Middle School, where she's also served as a foreign language teacher and as assistant principal. She exemplifies the writing project idea of Teacher as Writer. She has a wonderful blog called My Astrid Teacher, which I lurk on occasionally. And she has recently co-written a book with her mom, Sionni Nieto, who is here as our guest today, called Teaching a Life's Work, A Mother-Daughter Dialogue, which will be published in January by Teachers College Press. I'm really looking forward to that. Alicia is also an advocate for social justice, and she was honored in 2015 by the Massachusetts Teachers Association with its Louise Gaskins Lifetime Civil Rights Award, which is a very prestigious honor. I have no doubt that she has many more lifetimes of achievement ahead of her, and we're very proud that her work continues to include the Western Massachusetts Writing Project. Thank you, Alicia, for your service, your example, and your corazón. Okay. I'm not going to talk for long because I didn't know if I would have time to talk or not. So thank you, Bruce, and everybody on the Western Massachusetts Writing Project Executive Board for this honor. It really is an honor coming from my professional home, which as a teacher it's the place I always go to for resources, for ideas, for encouragement, and I really feel like it's a big part of why I've stayed in teaching, and this is my 24th year as a teacher. So thank you very much. I also want to thank my mom, who's here, as you know. My mom has been my inspiration forever as a teacher herself and writer. It's just been such a pleasure to write a book with her. I mean, how many people could get to write a book with their mom? It's been a very special time for me, and thank you for always being my biggest fan. Thank you.