Appearance on The Brian Lehrer Show, July 2020. What Does BIPOC Mean And Who Does It Serve?

Appearance on We Teach Languages, June 2020. Language Legitimacy and Imagining New Educational Contexts.

Appearance on School’s In, March 2020. Remaking Schools after COVID-19.

Appearance on The Vocal Fries podcast, March 2020. Bilingualism is. It just is.

Appearance on Paseo Podcast, March 2020. Community as a Campus with Dr. Jonathan Rosa & José López.

Appearance on AnthroPod podcast of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, February 2020. Raciolinguistic Ideologies & Decolonizing Anthropologies: A Conversation with Jonathan Rosa.

Appearance on Chasing Encounters Podcast, September 2019. Raciolinguistic Ideologies.

Appearance on School’s In, February 2019. Grappling with language differences in the classroom.

Appearance on The Vocal Fries podcast, January 2019. Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Podcast.

Appearance on Anthropological Airwaves Podcast, October 2018. Episode 9: Race and Language.

Appearance on Your Call, KALW 91.7, San Francisco Local Public Radio, September 2017. Eight days after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans are still without water, fuel, & power.

Appearance on Lexicon Valley, November 2012. “From ‘Wetbacks’ to ‘Illegals’ to ‘Undocumented’ to…?”

Appearance on KBOO News (Portland, OR), October 2012. “Drop the I-Word!”

News Interviews

Interview by Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observier, February 17, 2026. 2 months in, is east Charlotte’s ‘Councilman JD’ experiencing the AOC effect?

Interview by Julia Barajas, Southern California Public Radio, October 2025. Campaigning in Spanish takes on new meaning for candidates in California governor’s race.

Interview by Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, January 2025. Are we asking the right questions about Hilaria Baldwin?

Interview by Adeline Schultz, WGLT/NPR, April 2024. Bilingual advocate tells ISU educators arbitrary standards stigmatize EAL students.

Interview by Mathew Miranda, Sacramento Bee, November 2023. Millions of Latinos will gather for the holidays. Some will be shamed for the Spanish Skills.

Interview by Alejandra Molina, Los Angeles Times, September 2023. Pew: Most U.S. Latinos speak Spanish, and those who don’t are shamed by their own.

Interview by Marc Ramirez, USA Today, September 2023. Latinos are pressured to speak English but often shamed when they can’t speak Spanish.

Interview by Manisha Krishnan, Vice.com, March 2021. White People Keep Posing as People of Color for Clout.

Interview by Laura Bliss, Bloomberg, February 2021. Presidents Have Always Talked About Equity. But What Kind?

Interview by Jack Herrera, The Nation, June 2020. Latinxs Don’t Need to Speak Spanish.

Interview by Constance Grady, Vox.com, June 2020. Why the term “BIPOC” is so complicated, explained by linguists.

Interview by Lucía Benavides, NPR, February 2020. Why Labeling Antonio Banderas a Person of Color Triggers Such a Backlash.

Interview by Theresa Avila, Girlboss.com, August 2018. 13 Women On The Real Emotional Toll of Code-Switching At Work.

Interview by Valerie Bauman, The Daily Mail, May 2018. Undocumented or illegal: Why both sides in the immigration fight want you to use their word.

Interview by Gina Kaufmann, Central Standard, KCUR 89.3, Kansas City Public Media, May 2015. “How the Word Racism Became Such a Loaded Term.”

Interview by Zach Dyer, Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, April 2013. “AP drops ‘illegal immigrant’ from Stylebook.”

Interview by Cindy Rodriguez, CNN, January 2013. “Language like ‘illegal immigrant’ seen as a challenge during immigration debate.”

Interview by Gene Demby, National Public Radio, January 2013. “In Immigration Debate, ‘Undocumented’ Vs. ‘Illegal’ Is More Than Just Semantics.”

Interview by Cristina Costantini, ABC News/Univision, September 2012. “Linguists Tell New York Times that ‘Illegal’ is Neither ‘Neutral’ nor ‘Accurate.’”

Other Interviews and News

Stanford undergrads join local high school students and their teachers for an uncommon learning experience, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, August 2021. Carrie Spector.

A conversation with Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University Department of Anthropology Newsletter, 2019-2020 and 2020-2021, Volumes 13-14. Jasmine Liu.

Interview by Lídia Gallego-Balsà, March 2020. An interview with Jonathan Rosa, expert in language, race, and education. Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & LIterature. 13(1): 83-88.

Interview by Jessica López-Espino, CaMP Anthropology, March 2019. Jonathan Rosa on his new book, Looking Like a Language and Sounding Like a Race.

"Latinxs learn to be - and sound like - themselves in highly studied ways": On Jonathan Rosa's Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University, May 2018. Zion Mengesha.

Interrogating the Language Gap - A CAL Commentary, Center for Applied Linguistics, March 2018. M. Beatriz Arias.