Formerly a bilingual middle school teacher, Caitie is a teacher, educator, and researcher who examines how oppressive forces are taken up or resisted in language policy and planning (LPP) for the education of linguistically minoritized students. Her research focus is on dual language bilingual education (DLBE) for early adolescent students in sixth through eighth grade. She draws on ecological theories of LPP to frame participants as policy agents and focuses on how language ideology and identity inform policy making. She is interested in how middle school DLBE programs organize and develop, who is involved in their design, and how and why participants across contexts and over time perceive and interpret language policies. Her work aims to center the experiences of linguistically minoritized students with the goal of creating transformational, liberatory learning spaces.