Jenna Cushing-Leubner, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she teaches in the Bilingual & Bicultural/ESL minor program and coordinates the Heritage Language Education professional development program and World Languages licensure program. She has spent the last ten years working with teachers to create high school Spanish and Hmong heritage language programs and ESL classes that emphasize community knowledge, identity work, multimodal literacies, social justice, youth research, and transformative teaching.

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