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Dr. Monica Gonzalez Ybarra's educational experiences and guided research highlight the rich language and literacies of Chicanx/Latinx communities that often go unseen within K-12 classrooms. Her work focuses on powerful teaching and learning practices within community spaces for Chicanx/Latinx bilingual youth, emphasizing the importance of home, family, and community knowledge in navigating sociopolitical worlds. Dr. Gonzalez is committed to fostering transformative educational experiences for bilingual pre-service and in-service teachers, seeking to collectively re-imagine and build educational opportunities for youth from communities of color. As a proud alumni of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she holds a double-major in Latina/Latino Studies and Spanish (2011), a master's degree from the University of Utah (2013), and a doctorate from the University of Colorado Boulder (2018). She is a recipient of the Cultivating New Voices Fellowship from the National Council of Teachers of English and the AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Champaign, IL
Assistant Professor in Curriculum & Instruction
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