Aleksandra Ita Olszewska currently works as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing), University of Oslo, Norway. She received her PhD in curriculum and instruction with a specialization in ESOL and bilingual education from the University of Florida in 2020 as a Fulbright scholar from Poland. Her doctoral work examined what refugee-background students’ stories reveal about their identities in the context of anti-refugee narratives. Aleksandra’s research interests include migration, multilingualism, teacher education, humanizing research methods, and socially just pedagogies. Her work has been published in TESOL Quarterly, International Journal of Multilingualism, Teaching and Teacher Education, Teaching in Higher Education, and Journal of Research in Rural Education. Aleksandra’s professional experience includes working with emergent bilinguals and teacher practitioners in schools. She also has taught ESOL and SLA methods as well as research methods to teacher candidates in the US, Poland, and Norway.