Dr. Fu is a Professor from the College of Education, University of Florida, USA. Her research is in the area of literacy with a specialty in writing and literacy instruction for new immigrants. She has had extensive experience of working in high poverty low performing K-12 public schools across the US in new immigrant communities. She has been a consultant across the United States: giving keynote/feature speeches and workshops to school districts in many states, and working closely with classroom teachers in search of effective ways to improve the outcomes of low achieving students and emergent bilinguals. Her recent scholarship includes her work on translanguaging practices in diverse contexts, intervention and implementation of English writing and cultural responsive reading series in EFL contexts and on biliteracy development and practice of emergent bilinguals and bilinguals. Her scholarship has resulted in books, handbooks on writing instruction, reading series and special issues in both English and Chinese and over 100 chapters, journal articles and book reviews in the US and globally.