Research Interests


  • Bilingual & Multilingual Education
  • Digital, Media & Multimodal Literacies
  • Embodied Cognition
  • Families
  • Immigrant and Refugee Education
  • Language & Literacy
  • Learning Outside of Schools
  • Race, Culture, and Identity
  • Race, Language, and Sociolinguistics

Current Research and Scholarly Interests


language brokering, immigration, transnationalism, diaspora, literacies

All Publications


  • Paving the Way for Secondary Bilingual Education Programs: An Analysis of Policy and Practice Kim, V., Mancilla, L., Choi, G. Migration Policy Institute. 2026
  • Native Language Assessments for K-12 English Learners: A 2025 State-Level Snapshot GarcĂ­a, G., Choi, G., Mancilla, L. Migration Policy Institute. 2026