Dr. Yvonne Freeman and Dr. David Freeman are Professors Emeriti at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Both are interested in effective education for emergent bilinguals. They present regularly at international, national, and state conferences. The Freemans have authored books, articles, and book chapters jointly and separately on the topics of second language teaching, biliteracy, bilingual education, linguistics, second language acquisition, and translanguaging. They are program authors of On Our Way to English and Literacy by Design.