Jessica R. Toste is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin. She holds research affiliations with the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk and Texas Center for Equity Promotion; and is a fellow with the IES-funded Research Institute for Implementation Science in Education (RIISE). Her research is focused on methods for intensifying intervention for students with persistent reading challenges and reading disabilities. She is PI on research grants from the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Jess is associate editor for the Journal of Learning Disabilities and current President of CEC’s Division for Learning Disabilities.