Welcome

"Kúnmi is a passionate and observant student of the spoken and written word."

-- my friend, Stephanie.

 

I'm a doctoral student in the Second Language Studies program at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. My professional interests as an English language teacher and program manager center on developing and nurturing "conscientização" or critical consciousness, particularly within English for Academic Purposes. As a researcher, I'm interested in bringing knowledge of emotions into conversations around language and literacy pedagogy from a critical and radical perspective.

​

Before joining UH Mānoa, I completed Teachers College's Language Program Management Certificate while I was working as a Program Coordinator for the American University in Baghdad's English Language Academy. I have also worked as an English language teacher in Spain, China and the UK.

​

I earned an MA in Linguistics from SOAS University of London where I wrote a dissertation on language shift among a Yorùbá population in the UK through the lens of Family Language Policy. As a Yorùbá heritage speaker myself, I am always looking to connect with those interested in maintaining our language in the diaspora.