Paty Abril-Gonzalez

Ph.D. in Social, Multicultural, and Bilingual Foundations with an emphasis in Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity, University of Colorado Boulder, 2018

M.A. in Curriculum & Instruction, Elementary Bilingual, & ESL, University of Colorado Denver, 2009

B.A. in Art History, University of Colorado Boulder, 2003

B.S. in Business Marketing, University of Colorado Boulder, 2003

Research interests include relationship building among bilingual Latinx elementary students, their families, and their teachers.

3MT Winner, University of Colorado Boulder (2018)

Mitchell D Ingram, Ph.D., expected 2019 (Committee Member)
Mitch's research interests include the role of humor as a site for the mobilization of community cultural wealth, relajo in bilingual contexts and he is passionate about the different linguistic varieties, dichos, refranes, modismos, and chistes of the Spanish-speaking world. In addition, he is fascinated by how minoritized mono/bilingual Spanish-speakers leverage humor in both affiliative and disaffiliative ways to navigate hegemonic systems and what this could mean for theory, pedagogy, and practice.

Desiree Pallais-Downing (Committee Member)
Desirée Pallais is a PhD candidate in the Bilingual/Bicultural program at the University of Texas at Austin. She is very interested in critically examining how assumptions derived from established ideologies and policy initiatives, guide educators in different contexts. She investigates cross-language and cross-cultural aspects of teaching and learning with Spanish-speaking populations, especially in the area of literacy. Her current work is focused on using discourse analytic techniques to identify the linguistic and pedagogical contributions, and...