Laura Meinzen (she/her/hers) is a PhD Student in Equity, Bilingualism and Biliteracy, and Teacher Learning, Research and Practice in the School of Education. Laura was a secondary public school teacher for twelve years in New Orleans and in Western Colorado, and an International Baccalaureate Diploma Coordinator for six. She is interested in Community-Based Participatory Action Research, particularly in partnership with multilingual, multicultural and transnational youth, as well as critical ethnography, and how YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research) might be a lever for educational policy change and linguistic justice. With youth, Laura hopes to investigate the application of Freirean praxis, decolonial, culturally sustaining pedagogies, and multilingual epistemologies in teacher education. Her other connected research interests include Global South epistemologies, language ideologies, language policy and planning, and indigenous language revitalization.