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

Studies long-term relationships with Latinx bilingual students and teachers using arts-based biliteracy approaches to affirm and amplify silenced perspectives.

Committee Member, Cultural Diversity and Global Culture Flags, (2019 - Present)

3MT Winner, University of Colorado Boulder (2018)

Laura D Turner, Ph.D., expected 2022 (Committee Member)
Translanguaging praxis and multilingual pedagogies; holistic bi/multilingual approaches to language and bi/multilingualism; transdisciplinary research methods

Mitchell D Ingram (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 the US education system and what this could mean for theory, pedagogy, and practice.

Desiree Pallais-Downing (Committee Member)
Examines the contributions of strengths-based approaches in literacy instruction with Spanish-speaking bilingual teacher candidates and in-service teachers in the U.S. and in Latin America.