Lu Liu is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her research focuses on language policy and planning, language socialization, and the ethnographic study of education, with a geographical focus on the United States and China. She is particularly interested in family language policy and heritage language maintenance. Liu is the coauthor (with Marjorie Elaine Faulstich Orellana and Sophia L. Ángeles) of “‘Re-inventing Ourselves’ and Re-imagining Education: Everyday Learning and Life Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic” in the Harvard Education Review (in press). She holds a PhD in education from UCLA.