Edwin Dartey is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, and a master's degree in Applied Linguistics from Ohio University. Edwin has taught academic communication and English composition courses at high school and university levels in Ghana and the United States. His research interests include language policy and planning, language and literacy education in multilingual contexts, critical pedagogies in TESOL, and southern and decolonial epistemologies.