Minhye Son, EdD, is an Associate Professor in the Teacher Education Division at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). Her teaching focuses on preparing future educators to enact anti-racist, decolonizing, and humanizing pedagogies that recognize and build upon students’ linguistic and cultural assets through bilingual education. Currently She serves as Coordinator of the Asian Languages Bilingual Teacher Education Program and is the past Chair of the CSU Council on Plurilingual Educator Preparation (2023-2025), where she advanced linguistic diversity and equity in education.

Her research, grounded in sociocultural learning theories and critical frameworks, examines the intersections of language, power, and identity, supporting immigrant communities, teachers of color, and multilingual children. She was selected as a CSU Early Childhood Multilingual Literacy Faculty Fellow (2025–2026) and is Co-Principal Investigator of the Multilingual/Minoritized Educators Networked-Learning and Development (MEND) project, funded by a $1.59 million U.S. Department of Education grant.

Dr. Son’s scholarship has been published in Teaching and Teacher Education, Language and Education, and Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education. Her co-authored article, “Culture is where I come from”: An analysis of cultural competence of student teachers of color in early childhood education, received the 2024 JECTE ( (Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education) Distinguished Article Award in 2025.  

She earned her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, and is a Korean-English bilingual, transnational/transcultural MotherScholar.