GA 2004E
Yunmeng's research explores how educational policies, institutional structures, and sociocultural forces shape students’ learning experiences, particularly within multilingual, immigrant, and Asian American communities. Drawing on her background in Chinese language instruction, curriculum development, and K–12 educator training, she examines how meritocracy, neoliberal governance, and language ideologies influence educational opportunity and equity. She is especially interested in how students’ linguistic, cultural, and emotional development interacts with policy environments in ways that reproduce or challenge inequality. Across her work, she seeks to bridge policy analysis with pedagogical practice to support more just, culturally responsive, and human-centered educational systems.