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Tomonori Nagano, Ph.D., is a Professor of Japanese at LaGuardia Community College, the City University of New York. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Linguistics from the CUNY Graduate Center, as well as an MA in TESOL from New York University. He has written multiple articles on heritage languages, including the demographics of heritage language speakers in the U.S. (Modern Language Journal), and the teaching and learning of heritage languages at community colleges (Foreign Language Annals and Heritage Language Journal). He has served as a board member for the MLA's ADFL/ALD Executive Committee from 2019 to 2023 and he is currently member of MLA's Community College Committee. For more information on his research and publications, visit https://t-nagano.com/publications/.