Juan David Gutierrez successfully defended his dissertation: Building Bridges, Crossing Borders: Narratives of Multilingual Students First-Year College Experiences (Committee: Panayota Gounari (Chair), Kimberly Urbanski, Tara Parker) and Jesse Rubio successfully defended her dissertation: Educational Language Policy for Multilingual Learners: Leveraging Policy’s Multiple Dimensions and Discourses (Committee: Avary Carhill-Poza (Chair), Panayota Gounari, Amanda Kibler, and Jeff Bale). Congratulations Dr. Gutierrez and Dr. Rubio, the first graduates from our Doctoral Program in Applied Linguistics.