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Linda M. Pheng is a Cambodian American scholar serving as an Assistant Professor at Penn GSE, specializing in community-based education and critical youth work for immigrant and refugee youth. She explores themes of race, ethnicity, displacement, and belonging, focusing on the interlocking oppressions faced by working-class Asian and Southeast Asian immigrant and refugee populations in both formal and informal educational contexts. Prior to her position at Penn GSE, she worked in nonprofit educational settings in the U.S. and Cambodia. Her research is particularly concerned with how Southeast Asian American students navigate their identities and experiences of inclusion and exclusion in schools, and the ways in which they resist educational erasure through community-based educational practices. She has published several articles and book chapters examining these issues, contributing to the discourse on educational equity and social justice.