A vision to transcend, transform, and transgress.

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I am Professor and Director of the Doctor of Education program at a university in the USA. I earned my Ph.D. in Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Language Education from The Ohio State University in 2012. As a first-generation immigrant from Hong Kong, China, and a mother-scholar, I am committed to serving minoritized communities through research, teaching, and service. My research spans China, Hong Kong, Italy, Taiwan, and the United States and draws on critical pedagogy, discourse analysis, Bakhtinian theories, multilingualism, early childhood education, and teacher education to examine language, identity, power, and equity. My collaborative research with 11 researchers in Reggio Emilia, Italy, contributed to an edited volume for affirming the rights of emergent bi- and multilingual language learners. My accomplishments include receiving a Fulbright award, serving as an invited speaker at a Harvard conference in 2021, serving as Co-Principal Investigator on a National Professional Development Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, and serving as an invited guest editor for the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication. My scholarship has been published in journals including Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice, TESOL Quarterly, and Urban Education. Through my scholarship and leadership, I seek to challenge the status quo and advance more equitable, humanizing, and transformative approaches to education for minoritized populations worldwide.