Ana Souza is a Lecturer at the Federal University of Goiás - UFG and a Collaborating Researcher in the Postgraduate Programme in Linguistics (PPGL) at the University of Brasília - UnB (Brazil) as well as a Visiting Academic at Oxford Brookes University (England). Ana holds a PhD from the University of Southampton, England, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education from Goldsmiths, University of London. A Fellow of the (British) Higher Education Academy. Her research interests are in Sociolinguistics, with a focus on bilingualism, language and identity, language choices, language planning (families and immigrant churches), complementary schools (heritage language schools), heritage language, language teacher education. Ana is in the editorial board for Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada (RBLA), Cadernos de Linguagens e Sociedade (LeS) and UNILETRAS. She is the author and editor of Português como Língua de Herança – recortes em casa, na igreja e na escola (2016). She also coedited O POLH na Europa – Português como Língua de Herança - vol. 1 (2017), Línguas, Identidades e Migração: Brasileiros na Europa (2019), O Ensino de Português do Brasil – uma herança, um acolhimento (2020), Português como Língua de Herança - uma disciplina que se estabelece (2020) and Portuguese as a Heritage Language in Europe - a pluricentric perspective 92021). She was the consultant for and the writer of the guide Alunos Imigrantes na Escola – Apoiando o desenvolvimento emocional e acadêmico de alunos imigrantes, published in 2019 by Cáritas Brasileira; and of Propostas Curriculares para o Ensino de Português no Exterior – Português como Língua de Herança, published by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) in 2020. Ana leads the Research Group on Multilingualism in family, religious and educational contexts (MultiFaRE - https://tinyurl.com/multifare2019).