Netta Avineri

Dr. Netta Avineri is an applied linguistic anthropologist whose research and practice focuses on critical intercultural communication, language teacher education, storytelling for impact, ethical university-community partnerships, language and social change. She has two decades of interdisciplinary expertise that bridges individual, institutional, community, and government perspectives for common collective commitments. Netta is Professor of Intercultural Communication (ICC) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, where she has served as ICC Program Chair since 2014, Middlebury Social Impact Corps Director since 2015, CoLab Leadership Team Member since 2016, and Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation Graduate Director since 2022. She has also taught at California State University (Monterey Bay, Long Beach), University of California (Los Angeles, Berkeley, Santa Cruz), and community colleges in California. She engages deeply with community partners focused on social issues including environmental stewardship, food access, language advocacy, housing insecurity, and civil rights both domestically and internationally. Netta has published several books on critical research methodologies, language and social change, and heritage language socialization and is Series Editor for the Critical Approaches in Applied Linguistics series (De Gruyter). She served as the inaugural Public Affairs and Engagement Chair for the American Association for Applied Linguistics and is a Member of the Executive Board for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.