Kate Paterson is a PhD candidate in applied linguistics in the Faculty of Education at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. She has taught English as a second language for more than 12 years at various grade levels, including postsecondary. Kate is passionate about asset-based language pedagogies that validate and harness the rich cultural and linguistic resources students bring into the classroom. Her focal research interests include plurilingual language education, language and literacy learning among refugee children and youth, and teacher education.