Jeevan Karki has 15 years of professional experience working as an English language and literacy educator, teacher trainer, and literacy specialist (early grades) in varied contexts and levels. Prior to joining UW, he worked as a senior literacy program officer at Room to Read, a global non-profit. Currently, he is a writing instructor and graduate student, teaching English to second language learners (ESL) at UW. He has a Master’s degree in Education (specialization in English). Jeevan is interested in bi/multilingual children’s critical/literacy skills development in a K-12 context and focuses his research and publications in this area. His publications include research papers, blogs, op-eds, and children’s literature. Jeevan enjoys traveling/hiking, photography/videography, watching movies, and playing football in his free time.