Xinhang Hermione Hu is a Ph.D. student in the Applied Linguistics and Language Education program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests include transnational experience, pluri/multilingualism, and race. One strand of her research focuses on world language teaching and learning in transnational contexts. Another centers on multilingual international students of color and their racialized experiences with language and identity. She is currently working on critical collaborative autoethnographies on international students' naming practices and racial learning, and a narrative case study of transnational multilingual language teacher identity. She has most recently published in Higher Education. She can be reached at xhhu@umd.edu. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0233-253X

Victor Adedayo is a PhD student in Applied Linguistics at Oklahoma State University (OSU), where he specializes in corpus linguistics and corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis (CADS). His research examines how language both reflects and reinforces various ideologies and social structures, with a particular focus on digital communication, academic discourse, and AI-mediated language practices.

Outside academia, he also engages in user experience (UX) research, applying discourse and linguistic analysis to study how people interact with AI systems and conversational agents.

Dayoung Joo is a PhD student in the Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL at Georgia State University. Before pursuing her doctoral studies, she taught English in K-12 settings in South Korea, an experience that continues to inform her research and teaching. She currently serves as a graduate fellow at the Center for Research on the Challenges of Acquiring Language and Literacy (RCALL), where she explores the intersection of second language research and educational psychology. Her research interests include second language acquisition (SLA), L2 reading and listening, and quantitative research methods. She is also dedicated to exploring language ideologies and advancing equity and inclusion in language education.

Mark Sullivan is a Ph.D. student in the Applied Linguistics Program at Northern Arizona University. His principal research interests are L2 writing, particularly teacher feedback on discourse features; Mandarin language instruction, particularly the teaching of tones; language change, particularly transmission, preservation, and innovation of linguistic forms such as slang; and stylistics, the application of statistical techniques to literary analysis.

Rickey Larkin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Rickey's dissertation focuses on language planning and policy at Benguet State University in the Philippines, where they previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer.