On April 3, 2025, Dr. Showstack will give a keynote address, "Community Engagement for Linguistic Justice and Health Equity" at the Forging Linguistic Identities Conference held at Towson University in Baltimore, MD.
In her keynote address, Dr. Showstack will describe the processes of engaging interpreters, healthcare leaders, and community members with non-English language preference in a project aimed at improving healthcare language access in Kansas. By exploring the impact of engagement with diverse groups of stakeholders, she makes a case for extending community-based research practices in applied linguistics.