Amber Markmann Simmons, WC ’03, from Snellville, Georgia, was named the International Society for Language Studies’ 2015 Founders’ Emergent Scholars Award winner. Simmons has been invited to speak at the 2017 conference in Honolulu. She will have a paper published in Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, the peer-reviewed, quarterly journal in the fields of applied linguistics, language policy, language planning, modern languages and literatures, education, anthropology, sociology, history, political science, psychology and cultural studies.