Emily Hager is a doctoral applicant at the University of Missouri-St. Louis with a socio-cultural theory emphasis in Education. She is currently gathering qualitative data on the immigrant experience in St. Louis, focusing specifically on the experiences of Latino/as and Arab-Americans. She has taught English as a Second Language (ESL) in both Illinois and Missouri, in public, private, and non-profit sectors, as well as serving as a college instructor in both Linguistics and Education departments in Illinois. She is currently a teaching assistant at the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the division of Teaching and Learning.