Margie Kitano serves as Associate Dean of the College of Education and Professor of Special Education at San Diego State University (SDSU). She earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology/Special Education at the University of California, Los Angeles and is a licensed psychologist. She began her professional career at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, where she prepared special education teachers. She became interested in gifted learners when approached by families of gifted students who were not receiving special services in the public schools. At the university, she founded and directed a preschool program for gifted 3- to 5-year olds and practiced psychology with gifted children. She chaired the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders. Dr. Kitano moved to San Diego State University in 1988 as Associate Dean. There, she received a federal grant to investigate factors affecting the achievement of gifted women from African, Asian, European, and Hispanic-American backgrounds. She currently works with San Diego Unified School District to provide district certification in gifted education and SDSU’s graduate program in Developing Gifted Potential. She has worked for eight years with Open Gate, a program for gifted, impoverished, culturally and linguistically diverse students, funded by the Human Development Foundation. She also consults regularly with institutions of higher education on multicultural course transformation. Her current publications focus on effective strategies for working with gifted students.