I pitched, reported, and co-produced this episode for the podcast Racist Sandwich to explore Kitchen Spanish, a sort of practical patois used among English-dominant gringos and Spanish-dominant Latinos that work side-by-side in restaurant kitchens. For this piece, I interviewed staff (in English and Spanish) from restaurants in Grand Rapids, MI, including Donkey Taquería and MeXo. (2018)
Inmersos/Immersed: A Quest to Find Out How Many Spanish-Speaking Children Benefit from the Spanish Immersion Education Boom
This paper, based on my presentation of the same title at the Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States’ 2021