Jeff Bale is Associate Professor of Language and Literacies Education at OISE, University of Toronto. His research applies political-economic, anti-racist, and critical perspectives to educational language policy and teacher education. He is lead author of Centering Multilingual Learners and Challenging Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education: Principles, Policies and Practices (Multilingual Matters, 2023) and co-editor with Sarah Knopp of Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation (Haymarket, 2012). In July 2020, he was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers to study Critical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Linguistic Diversity in Migration Societies, hosted by Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu at the Universität Bremen. Currently, he is Principal Investigator of a SSHRC-funded study on Language, Race, and Regulating Difference: The Heritage Languages Program in Ontario, 1977-1987. His academic work is rooted in the decade he spent teaching English as a Second Language in urban secondary schools in the United States.