Alfredo J. Artiles

Alfredo J. Artiles is the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University. He is Director of the Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and Director of Research at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity. His scholarship examines how protections afforded by disability status can unwittingly stratify educational opportunities for other minoritized groups and is advancing responses to these intersectional inequities. Dr. Artiles was a member of the White House Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics and was a Resident Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education, was elected Vice-President of AERA to lead its Social Context of Education Division and is a Fellow of AERA, the Learning Policy Institute and the National Education Policy Center. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Göteborgs (Sweden). He is the editor of the Teachers College Press Disability, Culture, and Equity Series.

Ofelia García

Ofelia García is professor in the PhD programs in urban education and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian literatures and languages at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has been professor of bilingual education at Columbia University’s Teachers College and codirector of its Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies. She has also been dean of the School of Education at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University, professor of education at the City College of New York, and visiting professor at universities in Europe and Latin America. Her research focuses on the education of language minorities, bilingualism and biliteracy, and macrosociolinguistics. Among her recent books are Bilingual Education in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective (2009); Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity (2010, with J. A. Fishman); Negotiating Language Policies in Schools (2010, with K. Menken); Imagining Multilingual Schools (2006, with T. Skutnabb-Kangas and M. Torres-Guzmán); Bilingual Education: An Introductory Reader (2007, with C. Baker); and Language Loyalty, Continuity, and Change (2006, with R. Peltz and H. Schiffman). She is the associate general editor of The International Journal of the Sociology of Language. She has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Spencer Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Education and is a fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa and a board member of the National Latino Education Research Agenda Project. In 2008 she was the recipient of the NYSABE Gladys Correa Award. With Jo Anne Kleifgen, she is the author of Educating Emergent Bilinguals.

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