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, build connections, and develop bilingualism and biculturalism.

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

NCTE Professional Dyads and Culturally Relevant Teaching (PDCRT), National Council of Teachers of English (2021 - 2023)

Awarded a Grant from Alba Ortiz and James Yates Endowment in the Center for Mexican American Studies, Mexican and American Latino Studies (2021 - 2022)

LRA’s STAR Mentee & Member, Literacy Research Association (2019 - 2021)

3MT Winner, University of Colorado Boulder (2018)

“Listening, Reading, and Seeing Latinx Youth’s Testimonios: Imaginative Manifestations of Hope and Resistance”, Miramontes Scholars Program Mentor guest speaker, School of Education, Boulder, Colorado. (2020)

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

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.