Pursuing a career in educational research and advocacy for higher education, with the goal of preparing future educators to improve our schools while integrating immigrant and heritage languages and communities into education.
July 2024 - Presented at the California World Language Project Conference on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion panel on mixed-race Arab experiences in America at UC Santa Barbara
December 2023 - Presented at the Stanford World Language Project Conference on the effects of Dual-Immersion class instruction for non-Hispanic Spanish Learners at Stanford University
March 2022 - Delivered the Keynote address at the California Language Teachers Association Conference on valuing our K-12 language teachers, looking at global models to compare US to other leading countries in education
October 2024 - Publication in review for the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development on multi-racial individuals facing identity loss through not learning their heritage language