Eunice Faustino Gaerlan, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in AUT’s School of Education and leads their Master and Postgraduate Diploma of Teaching and Learning programmes. Eunice is passionate about supporting pre-service teachers in their journey to becoming registered teachers in Aotearoa. She is on the TEFANZ executive committee, the national teacher education association in NZ. Eunice's research intersects the fields of sociology, filipinx studies, gifted and talented education, girlhood studies and media studies. She is the BiPOC board representative for Gender and Education Association, an international organisation focused on research and advocacy for gender equality and serves on the Women on Campus executive committee at AUT.