Chris Montecillo Leider, Professor in the Applied Linguistics Department led professional development on working with multilingual learners in her hometown school district (Ketchikan, Alaska) this summer. Continuing her critical work, Dr. Leider also did a virtual talk for the University of Nebraska Lincoln Racial Literacy Roundtables series on September 20th. Her talk Disrupting the Model Minority Myth invited the audience to discuss how the model minority myth positions Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Desi students’ identities. During the Racial Literacy Roundtables, Dr. Leider presented the steps forward anti-bias and anti-racist curricula and practices that center rich diversity of Asian diaspora and acknowledge their backgrounds and identities.