MICRO-BIO

• High school English teacher in alternative ed. Teach Plus Illinois Senior Policy Fellow. 2021 NCTE Early Career Educator of Color.

  High school English teacher in alternative ed. Teach Plus Illinois Senior Policy Fellow. 2021 NCTE Early Career Educator of Color. Less

EXPERIENCE

• East St. Louis School District 189

  • English Teacher
  • June 2018 to Present

EDUCATION

• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Ed.D, Education Policy, Leadership, & Organization
  • July 2021 to Present

  Diversity and Equity in Education

• American College of Education

  • M.Ed, Curriculum and Instruction
  • August 2019 to September 2020

  Secondary Literacy

• St. Ambrose University

  • BA, Secondary English Education and Philosophy
  • August 2013 to May 2017

DISCIPLINES

• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, And Research

Interests

• Liberatory Pedagogy

• Linguistic Justice

• Linguistics

• Alternative Education

Languages

• Spanish

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