Susan E. Israel is the President of University of Saint Francis of Assisi, USA, established as a global reading research institution to celebrate the teaching and learning of reading teachers in under-resources communities around the world. She has been a member of International Reading Association and Literacy Research Association for many years, and is co-editor of Handbook of Research in Reading Comprehension (Israel & Duffy, 2009) and the forthcoming Handbook of Research in Reading Comprehension Volume II (Israel & Cartwright, 2017).