I'm currently a PhD candidate in Education at George Mason University with specializations in Multilingual/Multicultural Education, Teaching/Teacher Education, Critical Studies, and Anti-Racist/Decolonizing Research. I've previously taught ESL/EFL, English literature and composition in the USA (Washington, Kansas, Colorado, and Virginia) as well as conducted teacher professional development internationally (China, Indonesia, Colombia, Turkmenistan & Uzbekistan, in-person; Russia & Tajikistan, virtually). I began teaching English because of my interest in cross-cultural understanding and have now been working in the education field since 2005. My teaching and research interests include critical theory, participatory action research (PAR), decolonizing methodologies, and social justice within language teaching and teacher education in global settings.