Raichelle 'Rai' Farrelly

Raichle ‘Rai’ Farrelly, PhD, is an Associate Teaching Professor and the Director of the TESOL Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her professional interests include language teacher education, reflective teaching, curriculum design, community-engaged learning, and teaching refugee-background adults. She is committed to cultivating an awareness among TESOL practitioners about the role of social justice in ELT and approaches to ethical, antiracist, and decolonizing pedagogies. She is the co-chair of TESOL’s Justice and Equity Professional. Farrelly has co-edited several volumes, including Educating Refugee-Background Students: Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts and The Handbook of Research on Cultivating Literacy in Diverse and Multilingual Classrooms.