{"id":385,"date":"2025-02-25T18:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/?page_id=385"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T23:41:27","slug":"grc-core-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/grc-core-team\/","title":{"rendered":"GRC Core Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Anwar Ahmed<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of Language Education as Anti-Oppressive Transformation in Multilingual Settings in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His articles have appeared in journals such as the Oxford Review of Education<\/em>, Discourse<\/em>, Educational Philosophy and Theory<\/em>, and many others. Anwar is a co-editor of the journal Critical Inquiry in Language Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Charu Gupta<\/strong> is a PhD candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. She received her M.S.Ed in TESOL from the University of Pennsylvania and has taught English for over five years in India, USA, and Japan. Her research interests include study abroad, language ideologies, intersectionality, critical intercultural education, translanguaging, and second language writing.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Chinazam Okeke<\/strong> is a Doctoral\u202fStudent\u202fin the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She has taught sociolinguistics in Nigeria and South for over a period of four years.\u202fHer research interests are in the fields of multilingual education, language socialization, language ideology, family language policy, and anti-oppressive approaches to language and literacy education.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Sadia Shad <\/strong>is a PhD candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. Her research and teaching interests include second language\/ teacher education, teacher identity, decolonial and antiracist pedagogies, critical intercultural education, language ideologies, and discourse analysis. Driven by her deep commitment to equity and social justice in language education, Sadia has co-facilitated LLED Antiracist Caucuses<\/em><\/a> <\/em>meetings at LLED, UBC.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anastasia Zhuravleva<\/strong> is a PhD candidate at the Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia. Her research is focused on critical applied linguistics and culturally sustaining and decolonial modern language pedagogy. She has also worked on collaborative projects related to Native Hawaiian histories in the Pacific Northwest and has co-facilitated the LLED Antiracist Caucuses<\/a> meetings.
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Nanda Warren<\/strong> is a PhD student in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia. Her experience teaching adult English language learners in diverse contexts has informed her research interests in critical digital literacy and occupation-related language learning. Her overarching goal is to contribute to educational experiences that support career and continuing education pathways for adults from migrant and refugee backgrounds.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anwar Ahmed is Assistant Professor of Language Education as Anti-Oppressive Transformation in Multilingual Settings in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. His articles have appeared in journals such as the Oxford Review of Education, Discourse, Educational Philosophy and Theory, and many others. Anwar is a co-editor of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59310,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-385","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/385\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/tgrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}