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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%">The <i>International Multilingual Research Journal (IMRJ)</i> is proud to announce the addition of two new Associate Editors, <b>Deborah Palmer </b>and <b>Kellie Rolstad</b>, as we bid a grateful farewell to outgoing Associate Editor <b>Megan Madigan Peercy. </b><i>IMRJ</i>’s new Associate Editors will join continuing Associate Editors <b>Jin Sook Lee</b> and<b> Danny C. Martinez</b>, Editor-in-Chief <b>Jeff MacSwan</b>, and Editorial Assistant <b>John Chi</b>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><b>Deborah Palmer, </b><i>IMRJ</i> Associate Editor, <span style="color:black">is Professor of Equity, Bilingualism and Biliteracy in the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Culture, Language and Social Practice (CLASP) Program. A former dual language bilingual teacher in California, she is a qualitative researcher who conducts critical ethnography and discourse analysis in bilingual and multilingual classrooms. Her interests include bilingual education policy and politics; dual language bilingual education; teacher preparation for linguistically/culturally diverse teaching contexts; teacher advocacy and activism; and issues of language, power and identity in schools. She recently co-authored a book, <i>Dual Language Education: Teacher Cases and Perspectives on Large-Scale Implementation</i>. Her articles have appeared in a range of journals, including <i>Theory Into Practice, Review of Research in Education, Education Policy Analysis Archives, </i>the<i> Journal of Language, Identity and Education,</i> and the <i>International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism</i>.</span><b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><b>Kellie Rolstad,</b> <i>IMRJ</i> Associate Editor, is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education at the University of Maryland. Professor Rolstad earned her PhD in Education at UCLA, where she also earned degrees in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. Rolstad previously worked as a teacher in a bilingual elementary education program in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Her research interests include the language of schooling, language diversity, language education policy, digital and unschooled learning and literacy, and democratic education. Her work has appeared in the <i>Bilingual Research Journal, Teachers College Record, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, Educational Policy, Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, </i>the <i>International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism</i>, the <i>Journal of Language, Identity and Education</i>, and in edited collections.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><b>Jin Sook Lee,</b> <i>IMRJ</i> Associate Editor, is Professor of Education, an affiliated faculty member in Linguistics and Asian American Studies, and Associate Dean of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research, which has been funded by the Foundation of Child Development, the National Institute of Health, and the National Science Foundation, focuses on the sociocultural processes of language maintenance, development, and education in multilingual youth. Her recent publications include a co-edited book, <i>Feeling It: Language, Race, and Affect in Latinx Youth Learning </i>(2018, Routledge), and articles in <i>Review of Research in Education, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Linguistics and Education, Journal of Early Childhood Research, </i>and the<i> <span style="color:#333333">Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development</span>.</i> She is a former Fulbright Senior Scholar in Applied Linguistics and also serves on the editorial boards of the <i>Bilingual Research Journal, Language Arts, The Korean Language in America, Journal of Asia TEFL, </i>and<i> Language Teaching for Young Learners</i>.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><b>Danny C. Martinez,</b> <i>IMRJ</i> Associate Editor, is Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis School of Education. Dr. Martinez’ research explores the cultural and communicative practices of Black and Latinx youth in secondary literacy classrooms, and teacher learning as it relates to leveraging, leveling and sustaining youth practices. Martinez’ research has been published in the <i>Review of Research in Education</i>, <i>Anthropology and Education Quarterly</i>, the<i> Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Linguistics and Education, English Education</i>, and <i>Urban Education</i>, among others. Dr. Martinez is a former secondary teacher of English Language Arts and English Language Development in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He earned his PhD in Education at UCLA.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><b>Jeff MacSwan,</b> <i>IMRJ</i> Editor-in-Chief, is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Language Education at the University of Maryland. He is also Professor of Neuroscience and Cognitive Science and affiliate Professor in the Department of Linguistics. His research program focuses on the linguistic study of codeswitching, translanguaging theory, and on the role of language in the education of multilingual students. His work has appeared in the <i>American Educational Research Journal, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Lingua</i>, the <i>Bilingual Research Journal, World Englishes</i>, and <i>Language Teaching Research</i>, among others. He recently co-edited <i>Codeswitching in the Classroom: Critical Perspectives on Teaching, Learning, Policy, and Ideology</i> (Routledge, 2021) with Christian J. Faltis. He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and of the National Education Policy Center, and the 2021 recipient of the AERA Bilingual Education Research SIG Lifetime Achievement Award and the Second Language Research SIG Leadership through Research Award. MacSwan previously taught linguistically diverse middle and high school students in Los Angeles public schools.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><a name="_gjdgxs"></a><b>John Chi</b>, <i>IMRJ</i> Editorial Assistant, is a current PhD student in Applied Linguistics and Language Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland. His research focuses primarily on heritage language education, with an emphasis on minority dialect speakers in the context of community-based programs. He is also interested in the role of race and identity in language education, humanizing education, teacher preparation for working with multilingual youth, and language program evaluation. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><i>IMRJ</i> will say goodbye, with profound gratitude, to outgoing Associate Editor <b>Megan Madigan Peercy</b>, who has served as <i>IMRJ</i> Associate Editor since 2017. We wish her well in her new role as Associate Dean for Educator Preparation and Undergraduate Studies at the University of Maryland. Megan made critically important contributions to the success of <i>IMRJ</i> as it continued to grow as a preeminent journal in the field. Thank you, Megan!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%">We are grateful for the many contributions of our outgoing team members, and looking forward to the incoming team as we work to publish outstanding research in the coming years.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>