Sarah A. Coppersmith has been an Assistant Research Professor and Adjunct Professor in the University of Missouri, St. Louis (UMSL) College of Education, an Adjunct Instructor of Geography in the Humanities Division at Lindenwood University, and serves as Doctoral Chair, Higher Education Leadership at Maryville University. She is currently a Fellow in the Inquiry Circle Program on global competency (Longview Foundation, UMSL Global, and UMSL College of Education, 2019-2020). Her recent research includes a focus on in-service and pre-service teachers’ application of linguistically and culturally responsive teaching practices; stress, self-efficacy, and inquiry learning with pre-service teachers; explorations of inquiry learning in the Fur Trade Era in the Mid-Mississippi Valley in an International Baccalaureate Language Immersion setting, moral agency beliefs of undergraduates studying World Regional Geography, and multiple studies in transformative learning.