Virginia Lea is an Associate Professor of Education at Sonoma State University, and the co-founder and Executive Director of the Educultural Foundation. Virginia identifies as both European and Arab. This identity and diverse social and cultural exp
...MoreVirginia Lea is an Associate Professor of Education at Sonoma State University, and the co-founder and Executive Director of the Educultural Foundation. Virginia identifies as both European and Arab. This identity and diverse social and cultural experiences in her native England, France, North Africa, Trinidad, Canada, and the United States of America, have contributed to a lifelong personal and professional commitment to social justice, and critical multicultural, anti-racist education. Virginia has 30 years of classroom experience, twenty of them at the middle school, high school, and college levels. She currently teaches "Multicultural Pedagogy" and “Social Studies in a Multicultural Society,” in the Literacy Studies and Elementary Education Teacher Credential Program at Sonoma State University, and General Education and Masters courses in foundations of education. Virginia is also the key administrator of Project Quest: Sonoma State University’s new 4 year American Multicultural Studies BA/Elementary Teaching Credential Program, designed to recruit and prepare critical multicultural teachers from low income communities and communities of color for careers in public education in underserved communities. She has several publications in the above fields, including a co-edited a book with Judy Helfand, published by Peter Lang, entitled, Identifying Race and Transforming Whiteness in the Classroom
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