Sarah Surrain, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of early childhood education. She studies how emergent bilingual children acquire and develop foundational language and literacy skills through responsive interactions with caregivers, with a focus on developing strengths-based interventions for emergent bilinguals with language difficulties. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the Spencer Foundation, and her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Early Childhood Research Quarterly Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools; Journal of Child Language and Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Before coming to UNLV, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Children’s Learning Institute at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She received her Ph.D. in Human Development, Learning & Teaching from Harvard University. She previously served as a literacy coach in bilingual classrooms and a Spanish teacher in her hometown of Chicago.