Chloe de los Reyes is an Associate Professor of English and Multilingual ZTC Faculty Lead at Crafton Hills College, where she has been teaching for over six years. Her work appears in Teaching English in the Two-Year College. She is also coauthor of the forthcoming chapter, “Writing to be Seen and Needing to be Heard Writing as Emergency from the Perspective of the SBCCD Asian and Pacific Islander Association,” in Writing Emergencies: Composing (Ourselves) in Times of Crisis, edited by Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides. In her downtime, she enjoys gardening and cooking.

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Andrew Guevara teaches English at Crafton Hills College. During his free time, he likes listening and performing music, drinking coffee, and playing basketball.

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Colette Murphy uses culturally responsive teaching to combine art and technology in her classes. She is passionate about helping students bridge the gap between “real life” and academic work. ​

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Myers & Lawyer is a Black multilingual researching and interpreting duo composed of Kenton Myers and Gloshanda Lawyer. Kenton Myers is a multilingual interpreter who is known for his leadership in the advancement of the interpretation and translation field. He serves as president of the Interpreters and Translators Association of Alabama (ITAA). He has co-authored a 40-hour English/Spanish language healthcare interpreter training program to prepare individuals for national certification. Kenton is the current President of Mano a Mano, Inc. Gloshanda Lawyer, PhD is a multilingual interpreter and independent researcher. She advocates for multilingualism for Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled and Hard of Hearing populations. She has been a K-12 Deaf educator, early interventionist, and assistant professor of Deaf Education, Deaf Studies, and Interpreter Education. Gloshanda is the current Secretary for Mano a Mano, Inc. For the last 3 years, Myers & Lawyer has been engaging in community-based research, creating resources and training materials, consulting and publishing multilingual open access content for BIPOC interpreters and the organizations that contract for interpreting services. They focus on issues of power and justice in language access spaces.

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Makeba Rangel is an equity-minded instructor in all of her English classes at Sacramento City College where she co-coordinates several linguistic justice communities of practice with Rachel Spangler. She is currently pursuing samba and singing directly into the mic. 

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Lízbet Sánchez, Ed.D., is a Spanish for Heritage Learners professor at Mt. SAC. She centers her practice on sociolinguistic justice and translanguaging, positioning the SHS classroom as a healing space. Through testimonio, poetry, and pláticas, she explores how Latiné students reclaim Spanish and affirm bilingual identities within U.S. schooling systems that often marginalize home languages.

 

​​Jamie Seibel is a Language Arts (ESL) Instructional Associate at the Woodland Community College Student Success Center. She started my journey with Woodland Community College during the Spring 2023 semester. As an undergraduate and graduate student at Sacramento State, Jamie worked as a peer-tutor, a PAVE volunteer tutor, and a Teaching Associate for English Five. She currently has a master’s degree in English, a Certificate in Teaching College Composition, a TESOL/TEFL certificate, and a minor in Sociology. Overall, Jamie loves interacting with faculty and students who enjoy helping others and are passionate about academic subjects as well as social justice. She is excited to discuss how we can bring Linguistic Justice to Writing Centers and/or Tutor Centers.  

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Rachel Spangler's jam is linguistic justice. She teaches English at Sacramento City College where her linguistic justice and equity work expands to the Puente Project and teaching incarcerated students at Folsom Prison. 

 

Lauren M. Mecucci Springer is a full professor of English at Mt. San Jacinto Community College in Southern California, an HSI, where she teaches composition and literature. She earned both her BA and MA at CSUSM - both in literature and writing studies. She completed her BA with an emphasis in literature, and her MA, particularly her thesis, focused on medieval women mystics. Her Ed.D. is grounded in leadership for higher education. Today, her research centers on feedback practices for writing classrooms, as well as across the curriculum; bringing STEM into first-year writing courses; and linguistic justice in writing classrooms. Currently, she is the faculty professional development and distance education coordinator. 

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​​Xochilt Trujillo Flores is an English educator, scholar, and curriculum designer in the Inland Empire. She teaches composition, multilingual writing, and literature at California State University, San Bernardino, Crafton Hills College, and College of the Desert. Her work centers linguistic justice, culturally responsive pedagogy, and equitable assessment. Her research focuses on how writing classrooms can affirm diverse identities and empower students as critical thinkers, community members, and agents of change.

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