Jennifer Phuong is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Swarthmore College. Her research and writing center on the intersection of disability, race, and language in U.S. educational contexts using interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks and methodologies that emerge from applied linguistics, disability studies in education, and critical pedagogies. These interests stem from her professional experiences as a high school special education teacher in Brooklyn, NY, as well as her personal experiences as growing up in a linguistically-minoritized refugee household. She uses qualitative research methods and works within teacher education to reach towrads equitable and inclusive schooling structures and pedagogical practices. As a teacher educator and scholar, Jennifer is invested in disability justice and abolitionist frameworks for being, (language) learning, and (language) teaching.