I had a fabulous time 9/18 exploring neurodivergent students in language education with the Council on Language Instruction at Northwestern University! At the beginning of our workshop per an informal poll, most folks were feeling uncertain about how to address the needs of neurodivergent students in their language classrooms (4-point Likert scale, biggest bucket by …
International Conference on Inclusive Foreign Language Education
1 down, 6 more to go! My first talk of Fall 2026 is in the books. Today, I presented virtually at an international conference organized by the Nataliia Gach Education Centre in Switzerland. My presentation was a quick snapshot about applying a trifecta of support for disabled students in world language classrooms: employing early design …
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Associate Director
I'm excited to share that I've been promoted: I'm now Associate Director of the Center for Language Teaching Advancement. Plus, I've also been shifted, by way of our provost, "into the continuing system" (a next-level rung within MSU's very unique "Academic Specialist" designation). Movin' on up! Functionally, not much changes with these updates. I still …
Too Much, Not Enough
This is probably the most vulnerable public-facing thing I've ever written. (And that's saying something when you've written a dissertation). I recently wrote a narrative essay for "Positionality Stories", a Medium .com series, about how my early family experience with disability shaped my scholarly curiosities, and how my research in turn led me, through disabled …
I was asked to help WIDA
In Spring 2026, I consulted with WIDA's education team to develop content for a professional learning course for teachers centered on supporting disabled multilinguals. During my time assisting WIDA, I led a lunch-and-learn to guide the team's development of learning resources, provided expert interviews as learning content in new modules, reviewed professional learning modules WIDA …
Running for School Board
Try as I might to compartmentalize parts of my life, when your whole personhood is dedicated to service and advocacy, things tend to blend together. Today I’m sharing somewhat more personal news here than I normally would. I’m running for a full-term, 6-year seat on the Lansing School District Board of Education on a platform …
DISALLI: a self-assessment tool
I have published an open access self-assessment tool for language educators! “The goal of this self-assessment tool is to guide instructors of additional languages in higher education who want to make more inclusive pedagogical choices for disabled students. This document includes a brief introduction to disability and additional language learning and teaching (the "why"), a …
Keynote: 8th Second Language Learning & Disabilities conference
In many ways, the Second Language Learning & Disabilities conference raised me to be the scholar I am today. I’m so pleased to be welcomed into this space again, this time as their keynote speaker. Please join us for Disability Inclusion: Finding Community at the Eye of the Storm in Language Education.
Disability Inclusion as Innovation in 2020s World Language Education
I was invited to Colgate University’s Conference on Innovative Approaches to Language Education to talk about Disability Inclusion in Dystopian Times Disability Inclusion as Innovation in 2020s World Language Education. Spoiler alert: Disability inclusion needs to play a part in the larger conversation about world language enrollments in U.S. higher education. Stay tuned!
SSLA special issue: Disability and L2 learning
I'm thrilled to announce that Disability and Second Language Learning, the 2025* special issue of Studies in Second Language Acquisition, is complete and remaining articles will be released soon! *We delayed several of the articles to align publishing with the journal’s decision to go fully Open Access beginning January 2026 - congrats, SSLA! My deepest …
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