Dr. Gunn is an Assistant Professor, Reading and Literacy Studies, College of Education, USFSP. She won the 2013 Dr. Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Emerging Scholarship, given annually by the American Educational Research Association to one scholar nationally who demonstrates a commitment to underserved communities and to producing scholarship that advances multicultural and multiethnic education. Dr. Gunn has redesigned literacy education graduate coursework at USF St. Petersburg to incorporate readings, activities and assignments within a multicultural framework. She also has collaborated with other researchers to investigate cultural autobiographies as a tool to promote cultural awareness in and published her findings through numerous publications and conference presentations.