Profiles in "Language and Identity" Expertise Area

  • Dr. Cayetano is a professor/director at New College. Her work centers on intercultural communication, language brokering, and community leadership. She serves as FWOCC President, CCI Exec Member, and Catalyst Grant Chair.
  • Cory A. Buckband, Ph.D. is a 2024 graduate in Educational Policy & Evaluation at MLFTC. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Educational Language Policy and Diversity in Family & Community Engagement.
  • Yalda M. Kaveh is an associate professor of Bilingual Education at MLFTC. Her work focuses on language policy, bi/multilingualism in (im)migrant families, family engagement in education, and culturally sustaining pedagogies.
  • Torres is an applied sociolinguist who uses quantitative and qualitative approaches to analyze spoken and written discourses concerning health issues—including policies, medical interactions, opioids, and access inequities.
  • Instructor of First-Year English Composition Courses offered through The Writers' Studio.
  • Ayumi Inouchi is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist of contemporary Japan, focusing on youth language and culture as a space of emergent negotiation of social relations and ideologies around gender.