Gordon received his BA in Global Studies from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and his MA in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He previously worked as a teacher educator at Sookmyung Women’s University in the TESOL department. He has taught ESL/EFL in South Dakota, Hawaii, South Korea and Japan. His research interests are critical pedagogy and assessment, teacher education, narrative analysis, and social justice in language teaching.