Kevin Perez (he/him/él) is a Ph.D. candidate in Bilingual Education in the Department of Teaching & Learning at NYU Steinhardt and a full-time Lecturer at the City College of New York. Perez holds two Bachelor's degrees in Education Sciences and Korean Literature and Culture from the University of California, Irvine, and a Master’s degree in Dual Language and English Learner Education from San Diego State University.
As a former Dual Language Immersion (DLI) teacher in California, Kevin’s work is grounded in cultivating teacher-centered ideological clarity that honors educators’ lived experiences and intersectional identities within multilingual educational spaces. His research interests explore how de facto Dual Language Immersion language allocation policies intersect with race, class, gender, and dis/ability, and how educators navigate these complexities in their everyday classroom practices. His broader goal is to support future bilingual educators in affirming their lived histories and cultural repertoires, while preparing them to nurture multilingual and multicultural identities in their students.
By centering both teacher and student agency, his work seeks to inform more equitable and culturally sustaining approaches to bilingual education policy and practice that reflect and respond to the diverse realities of the communities they serve.