I need y’all to know whether I’m in a classroom, edtech, content specific role, school leadership, higher Ed, any room periodt — I’m first foremost an advocate for multilingual education, the benefits of having multiple languages in education and my Black & Brown multilingual scholars. Linguistic diversity is my jam and honestly as a topic that I’m pulling apart for my dissertation— please stop telling kids “that’s not a word” “your accent is hard to understand” “that’s not how you say that” “kids need to speak English” — nah y’all just needed to learn another language and/or a variant of these languages and it shows (bless ya heart)