Rashi Jain is an associate professor in the English Language for Academic Purposes Program at Montgomery College’s Rockville campus, where she currently teaches academic English to multilingual immigrant and international students preparing for college studies. As a global citizen who now lives across nations, languages, and cultures, Rashi believes that it is crucial for students and educators to acquire intercultural and translingual competence to successfully navigate complex 21st-century realities, and this is foundational to her pedagogy and research. Rashi has been exploring the rich field of practitioner research and inquiry, and she has also published and presented extensively on teaching cross-cultural communication, teacher identity and pedagogy, World/Global Englishes and translingualism, and Non-native English Speaking Teacher (NNEST) issues.