Mama Adobea Nii Owoo recently defended her PhD in Language and Literacies Education specializing in Comparative and International Development Education at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Her research broadly explores the decolonial knowledge processes surrounding teachers sensemaking and interpretation of language policy for multilingual English learners using a Southern theoretical lens. Her interests are inspired by the linguistic and cultural complexities, ideological, historical and contemporary challenges that accompany the literacy teaching, and language learning needs of students of Black/African heritage. Her work has won multiple awards, including, UofT’s Adel Sedra Award,  TIRF’s Russell N. Campbell Prize and the QES Advanced Scholarship. Mama’s publications include a co-authored book, Centering Multilingual Learners and Countering Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Teacher Education: Principles, Policies and Practices with Multilingual Matters, and a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Language and the Global South and her first film, No Vernacular!, a docufilm about African Multilingualism and Language policy in Ghana. She is beginning a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with McGill’s University’s Department of Integrated Studies in Education.