Jill Koyama is an anthropologist and currently serves as Vice Dean and Professor, Division of Educational Leadership & Innovation at Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. In 2010, her book, Making Failure Pay: High-Stakes Testing, For-Profit Tutoring, and Public Schools was published by The University of Chicago Press. Her work also appears in several journals, including Journal of Educational Policy, Educational Researcher, Educational Administration Quarterly, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.