I study how institutions use language to mediate power, knowledge, and harm. I'm a PhD student of Applied Linguistics in Education at Concordia University in Montreal, and my work brings theory and practice together to look closely at how language operates in contexts of coercive control and other forms of gendered and family violence. With more than 18 years of experience supporting multilingual and exceptional students, I am interested in how institutional texts and discourses control what can be seen, what gets ignored, and what becomes possible for people moving through those spaces. I am interested in arts-based and ephemeral approaches like erasure, redaction, and other multimodal forms as an ethical way of working with sensitive materials and people's real and felt safety. Across my dissertation and projects, I explore how language shapes how we recognize, reproduce, or work to heal harm.