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Dr. Darielle Blevins
Start with Equity Fellow and Children's Equity Project Postdoctoral Research Scholar. Doctoral Student of the Year AY 2019/2020. Placed second in the CSU Competition for her research on how black adolescent girls negotiate their identity at school via self-portraits that represent how they feel about themselves on the inside, and how their teachers view them.
Dissertation title:
Visibility and the Power of the Black Girl Gaze to Understand Black Adolescent Girls' Identity
Dr. Verónica González
Assistant Professor of Bilingual/ Multicultural Education in the Division of Curriculum and Instruction, Cal State LA.
Dissertation title:
Beyond Language: Critical and Sustainable Sociocultural Competence in a Dual Language Program
Dr. Rhianna Henry
Earned tenure and promotion to Associate Professor at Sonoma State University.
Dissertation title:
Elementary Student's Perceptions of School Belongingness and (Bi)cultural Identity in English-only and Dual Language Strands
Dr. Justine Andreu Darling
Lecturer, San Diego State University
Dissertation title:
Social Justice in Restorative Justice Practices Trainings in California K-12 Public Schools
Dr. Cassandra J. Drake
Assistant Professor of Liberal Studies, California State University Stanislaus
Dissertation title:
Toward a social justice orientation: Exploring the development of teacher-candidate cultural competence
Dr. Michael Louis Washington
Online instructor (P/T), Career and Technical Studies at CSU Sacramento, College of Continuing Education, Bachelors of Science in Career and Technical Studies
Dissertation title:
Towards a Culturally Critical Andragogy: An Exploratory Study of the Black Male Experience in Higher Education
Rogelio Bolaños
Spanish Teacher, Singapore American School
Dissertation title:
Education Investment and the 3x1 Program in the State of Guanajuato, Mexico
Dr. Helina Hoyt
Nursing Program Coordinator, San Diego State University-Imperial Valley
Dissertation title:
Virtual Standardized Patient (VSP) Simulation: A Comparison of Pedagogical Methods to Improve Nursing Student Knowledge & Skill
Dr. WonYoung Cho
Assistant Professor, Marriage, Couples, and Family Therapy Program, Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling in Portland, OR
Dissertation title:
Context Filtering: Clinical and Linguistic Practices of Asian American Multilingual Mental Health Clinicians