Kathryn Accurso is Assistant Professor of Teaching Language and Literacies at the University of British Columbia. She is a mother, settler scholar, applied linguist, and former K-12 English language teacher. Her work centers around pursuing a multilingual equity agendain which all K-12 teachers and teacher educators take responsibility for and are equipped to support multilingual learners’ engagement, growth, critical thinking, and well-being in schools. Her main teaching and research areas are: disciplinary and community literacies, K-12 teacher education and professional development with a focus on intersectional linguistic justice, systemic functional linguistics and genre pedagogy, and action research as a form of teacher/teacher educator professional development.