Yasuko Kanno

Dr. Yasuko (“Yasko”) Kanno is a professor of language education and chair ad interim of the Language & Literacy Education Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is an applied linguist who specializes in immigrant English learners’ access to postsecondary education. A multilingual speaker who has lived in four different countries, Dr. Kanno interrogates how the US K-12 schools systemically marginalize multilingual students of color and works closely with local schools in the Greater Boston to promote educational equity for this population. She is an ethnographer by training and teaches qualitative research at BU Wheelock; however, she also occasionally engages in secondary data analysis.