

Her most recent work focuses on Latine student educational and engagement outcomes before and during the pandemic, in Massachusetts. This scholarship explores the macrosystems of disadvantage – discriminatory policies at the macro-level and discriminatory practices and racial segregation on the microlevel. She is also leading a multidisciplinary team on developing a strength-based practice “tool kit” that emphasizes notions of care and caring through a Latine lens. It includes background information, activity packets/ideas, and information to help practitioners across various educational settings use cultural, familiar, and gendered notions of Cariño, Cuentos/Conocimientos y Consejos (care, stories/ways of knowing, and advice) to demonstrate care and to uphold a culture of high expectations and accountability, while offering authentic and respectful insights on ways of being and moving about the world that are grounded on lived-experience, wisdom, and a desire to help young people thrive in all aspects of their lives.
She holds a BA in Political Science from CCSU, a master’s degree in Education from Boston College, and a doctoral degree in Language, Literacy and Culture from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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