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Teaching Assistant Professor of Italian
Teaching Assistant Professor of Italian
Lead Developer of the CUNY Academic Commons
an activist, scholar, and educator working towards decolonized, anti-racist, and just urban futures in New York City.
advocate for all things open (knowledge is a public good!) and the transformative potential of libraries
I'm a sociolinguist (PhD 2002, NYU) and my main research interests center on language and identity.
Associate Professor
I'm the Director of Organization and Business Effectiveness for IT at BMCC. I also teach film editing at City Tech.
Criminal Justice and Policing Adjunct Professor at John Jay and BMCC
Director, Brooklyn College Linguistics Program
CUNY Linguistics Program & Second Language Acquisition Lab