Cati V. de los Ríos is an Associate Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. de los Ríos's research applies critical, sociocultural, and translingual theories to examine the literacy and language practices of immigrant and bi/multilingual youth populations. Her ethnographic, community-based, and participatory research is situated at the axes of literacy studies, educational anthropology, civic and political learning, and ethnic studies, with an emphasis on studying the linguistic-semiotic repertoires that Latina/o/x youth and families deploy and...
Dr. Yang is an associate professor of school psychology in the Berkeley School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Yang’s research interests focus on understanding how school members interact with their ecological contexts to find their resilience individually and collectively when facing risks and adversities, such as bullying, teacher-targeted violence, and mental health challenges. Three central questions focused in her research agenda are: (1) how to assess and counterbalance the risks and adversities experienced by vulnerable school members as...
Merging my graduate degree training in developmental psychology (Ph.D., 2002) and in applied linguistics (Ph.D., 2004), I have developed a research program that is centrally concerned with the role of language and literacy practices in children’s development and education.
As a developmental psychologist, I have always been interested in discerning the sociocultural underpinnings of learning processes. The cognitive capabilities that our neurological apparatus enables us as human beings to attain do not pre-exist and are never abstracted from the social practices in which they...
Sarah Warshauer Freedman specializes in the development of written language, and the teaching and learning of writing, English, and history in educational settings. Her research focuses on U.S. schools but also incoroporates cross-national comparisons to provide a broad understanding of educational practices and their effects. Professor Freedman is a strong advocate for bridging research and practice, often collaborating with teachers and practitioner-researchers in her studies.
A significant dimension of Professor Freedman's work explores societal divisions, conflict, and...
Patricia Baquedano-López is Professor of Education at the Berkeley School of Education. Trained as a linguistic anthropologist and as an applied linguist at UCLA, she is a scholar with a long-standing interest in the education of racialized and minoritized students in schools. She draws from decolonial and Indigenous thought in her recent projects on transnational Indigenous sovereignty and education in the Maya diaspora Yucatan-California. She is a member of the Decolonial Knowledges and Pluriversal University working group at the Latinx Research Center at UC Berkeley which is dedicated...
Kristin Keane is Assistant Professor of Reading Development in the Early Grades in the Berkeley School of Education. She uses mixed methods approaches to study literacy development and instruction in elementary schools, paying special attention to the ways multimodal and digital literacies—including technological approaches—can enhance engagement, comprehension, and dialogic discussion of varied types of text, with an emphasis on diverse childhoods, including multilingual students and those labeled as disengaged or behind by their institutions.
Rafa is a doctoral candidate in the Language, Literacy and Culture cluster at the Berkeley School of Education. His work focuses on understanding how literacy and technology shape learning in formal and non-formal educational spaces, particularly in rural areas in Latin America. More specifically, Rafa's work seeks to understand how literacy practices shape and are shaped by people's political economy, and how these practices can become windows into the civic projects marginalized communities are trying to build beyond, and sometimes in opposition to, global development projects. Some of...
Asha Nidumolu (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Language, Literacy and Culture cluster of UC Berkeley’s School of Education. Her research interests lie at the intersections of sociocultural theories of literacy, teacher education, ethnic studies pedagogy, translingual pedagogies, and Cultural Historical Activity Theory. As a researcher and educator, Asha studies the liberatory potential of co-constructed learning environments that engage multiple ways of languaging and meaning-making.
Asha has 8+ years as a public school educator. She has taught high school Ethnic Studies and...
Bird Sellergren is a Ph.D. student in Education at the University of California, Berkeley, within the Language, Literacy, and Culture cluster. They are an educator and disability justice advocate committed to advancing autism acceptance and self-advocacy. Bird’s research examines autism not only as a neurotype but also as a political and cultural identity, exploring autistic epistemologies and relationality through the lenses of disability justice, decoloniality, and critical theory.
They serve as Executive Director and head facilitator of Bay Area Autism Collective, a nonprofit...
Josephine Ingram (she/her) is a doctoral student and Chancellor’s Fellow in the Language, Literacy, and Culture cluster at UC Berkeley's School of Education, advised by Kris Gutiérrez. Her research interests include gender and literacy, queer youth activism in schools, and teaching about collective action. Theoretically, she looks to decolonial thought, Marxism, and queer theory; methodologically, to ethnographic, design-based, and quantitative research methods. Currently, she is a Graduate Student Instructor for Glynda Hull’s “The Art of Making Meaning”. She is a Junior Editor and...
