Kevin Perez is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Learning, Leadership, and Culture at The City College of New York (CCNY). He holds dual Bachelor's degrees in Education Sciences and Korean Literature and Culture from the University of California, Irvine, and a Master’s degree in Dual Language and English Learner Education from San Diego State University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Bilingual Education at New York University. As a former dual language immersion teacher, Kevin’s work is grounded in cultivating teacher-centered ideological clarity that honors educators’ lived experiences and intersectional identities within multilingual educational spaces.

B.A. Education Sciences (Specialization in English Language Learning), University of California, Irvine

B.A. Korean Literature & Culture, University of California, Irvine

M.A. Education (Concentration in Dual Language and English Learner Education: Critical Literacy and Social Justice), San Diego State University 

Ph.D (In Process) Bilingual Education, New York University 

Kevin Perez’s research explores how language allocation policies intersect with race, class, gender, and dis/ability and how educators navigate these complexities in everyday classroom practices. His broader goal is to support future bilingual educators in affirming their lived histories and cultural repertoires while preparing them to nurture multilingual and multicultural identities in their students. By centering both teacher and student agency, his work seeks to inform more equitable and culturally sustaining approaches to bilingual education policy and practice that reflect and respond to the diverse realities of the communities they serve.