The Cultural Identity Autobiography Project is a personal visual and verbal narrative in which a candidate builds a story of her cultural identity that impacts her views on teaching and learning. The purpose of these verbal and visual narratives is to heighten awareness of candidates’ cultural identity as a step in better understanding of themselves and diverse students they will teach. Cultural autobiography is a reflective, self-analytic story of candidates’ past and present in which they investigate their life experiences and individual, interpersonal, and cultural influences through a cultural-historical lens. We each have many identities including those we were born as such as sexuality, race/ethnicity, body type and those we were born into and learn such as gender, culture, religion or spirituality, socioeconomic class, nationality, the norms of our families, etc. Each of our identities influences who we are and how we experience, interpret, and do everything. Our socio-cult...