UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIALINGUISTIC MINORITY RESEARCH INSTITUTEA University of California Multi-Campus Research Unit |
Beverly Bavaro, Editor and Web Manager
Email: beverly@lmri.ucsb.edu
Phone: (805) 893-2250Beverly has worked for UC LMRI since May 2001 and is in charge of editing and designing all print and web materials, including academic, research, and technical publications, the quarterly newsletter, annual reports, and conference programs.
Beverly also works for the affiliated California Dropout Research Project (CDRP) editing and producing all of the associated reports and briefs.
She is also the Web Manager for both LMRI and CDRP.Previously she spent a year working at Vandenberg Air Force Base for MCA Engineers Launch Operations & Support Contract as their Technical Services Secretary. Prior to that, she worked at The University of Texas at Austin, first for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, and then as the Senior Technical Secretary for Applied Research Labs/Signal Physics.
She was also Managing Editor and writer for several years for INsite magazine, an entertainment journal (similar to Santa Barbara's Independent). Currently she is a busy freelance writer for various online publications, and also works with graduate students, editing theses and dissertations.
Beverly is a native Californian, born in San Francisco, and has family in Santa Maria and San Diego.
Jacob Jaffe, Student Tech Assistant
Email: lmri-tech@lmri.ucsb.edu
Phone: (805) 893-2250Jacob joined the UC LMRI staff in February 2008, providing both the essential technical support and the equally important administrative support to LMRI's hard-working office.
Jacob is currently studying Mathematics in the UCSB College of Creative Studies, and plans to graduate with a B.S. in June 2009. He has also been tutoring in math since high school, and will continue to tutor at Campus Learning Assistance Services (CLAS) while working at LMRI.
When he's not on campus, Jacob is usually playing guitar or soccer with his housemates at the Manley Co-op.
Ana Medrano, Student Admin Assistant
Phone: (805) 893-2250Ana joined UC LMRI in November 2008. Her responsibilities include office reception, data entry, and office organizational tasks.
She is currently a junior majoring in Psychology with a minor in Education (Applied Psychology), and is expecting graduation in June, 2010. She is eager to attend graduate school and obtain her Masters in Counseling.
Ana worked as a Teacher Assistant in the LAUSD for three years, and would like to work as a high school counselor in the Los Angeles area.. She has also been an intern for the Adolescent Research in Communication Health and Education lab at UCSB.
Laura Romo, Interim Director
Email: lromo@lmri.ucsb.edu
Phone: (805) 893-2250Assistant Professor of Education (Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, UCLA, 2000), University of California, Santa Barbara, was appointed Assistant Director of the University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute in 2007. As of October 1, 2008 she is serving as UC LMRI's Interim Director.
Her training in both cognitive and social development has afforded her the opportunity to examine communication and health education processes within a variety of contexts, including teacher-student and parent-adolescent relationships. She is also interested in improving mother-daughter communication on topics related to adolescents' educational aspirations.
Her research areas and interests focus on adolescent development; Latina mother-daughter relationships; social, cultural, and cognitive influences on health behavior; health education and communication; and adolescent sexuality.
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Patricia Gandara, Associate Director for Policy (UCLA), 1998-present
Email: gandara@gseis.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 267 4875Professor of Education. Co-director of The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA.
Dr. Gándara has authored and co-authored various books and articles on such subjects as peer group influence and college-going behavior of low-income Latino and other ethnic minority students; immigrant students, bilingual education policy, and the public schools; high academic achievement of low-income Mexican Americans; Chicanos and educational mobility; and mathematics instruction in multicultural classroom.
Her professional interests in graduate teaching include: education policy/education reform, social context of learning, learning and assessment, and educational equity/bilingual and multicultural education.
She received her doctoral degree in Educational Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles and her masters degree in Counseling and School Psychology from California State University, Los Angeles.
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Jamal Abedi
Representing: UC Davis 2007-2010
Email: jabedi@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 754-9150Department: Education. Expertise: Assessment; Bilingual Education; English Learners; Psychometrics; Quantitative methods. Education: Ph.D., Psychology - (Psychometrics) - George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, Nashville.
Virginia Adan-Lifante
Representing: UC Merced 2008-2010
Email: vadan-lifante@ucmerced.edu
Phone: (209) 217-7245Lecturer PSOE, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts. Coordinator of the Spanish Language Program.
Adan-Lifante is an expert on the acquisition of foreign languages, including the social and cultural discomforts that are typically part of the process. A native of Spain, she learned English as an adult and is personally familiar with the barriers that impede language assimilation, especially among adults. She is also an informational resource on a wide range of issues related to Spanish and Latin American literature and culture, with special interest in women’s issues and Puerto Rican culture.
Adan-Lifante holds an undergraduate degree from the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain) in Filologia Hispanica and a Ph. D. in Hispanic Language and Literature from UC Santa Barbara. Prior to joining the faculty of UC Merced in 2004, she was an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.
Adalberto Aguirre
Representing: UC Riverside 1990-2009
Email: adalberto.aguirre@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-5507Aguirre's areas of research include the use of intuitive reasoning by teachers in bilingual classrooms to identify the sociolinguistic features of students; the analysis of language use and mass media orientations in bilingual Mexican and Mexican American households; and interpretative analysis of careerand educational mobility patterns of Mexican American faculty in the Southwest.
He received both his doctoral and masters degree in Sociology from Stanford University.
Joseph Castro
Representing: UC San Francisco 2007-2010
Email: Joseph.Castro@ucsf.edu
Phone: (415) 502-7786Ph.D., Stanford University. M.P.P. and A.B., University of California, Berkeley Current Position: Vice Provost, Student Academic Affairs. Research Interests: P-20 educational equity and policy; workforce development in the health professions; school, college and university leadership.
Margaret Gibson
Representing: UC Santa Cruz 2002-2011
Email: ggibson@ucsc.edu
Phone: (831) 459-4740Professor of Education and Anthropology (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1976), University of California, Santa Cruz.
A faculty member at UCSC since 1990, Gibson focuses her research on the school performance of immigrant and minority youth with particular attention to home-school-community relationships and to how school context and peer relations influence student participation and achievement in high school settings.
Gibson is one of the founding editors of Race Ethnicity and Education, and she currently serves on the Social Science Research Council’s Committee on Transitions to College and its Working Group on Education and Migration.
Professor Gibson teaches courses in courses on the social and cultural context of education, immigrants and education, the anthropology of education, and qualitative research methods.
Kris Gutierrez
Representing: UCLA 1997-2010
Email: krisgu@ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-7467Ph.D., English / Curriculum and Instruction, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1987
Areas of Interest: Current research interests include a study of the sociocultural contexts of literacy development, particularly the study of the acquisition of academic literacy for language minority students. Her research also focuses on understanding the relationship between language, culture, development, and pedagogies of empowerment.
Jin Sook Lee
Representing: UC Santa Barbara 2006-2009
Email: jslee@education.ucsb.edu
Phone: (805) 893-2872Research Areas and Interests: Second language acquisition with a focus on ESL learners, foreign language education, bilingualism, heritage language maintenance and interlanguage pragmatics. Research focuses on understanding how societal, cultural, and psychological variables influence the way people learn second/foreign languages.
Doctorate in Language Learning and Policy at Stanford University in 2000.
Working towards promoting an educational environment that values diversity and the learning and acceptance of many different languages and cultures.
Paula Levin
Representing: UC San Diego 2000-2011
Email: plevin@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-5108Graduate Adviser and Senior Lecturer (SOE) in the Education Studies.
Dr. Levin received her Ph.D. in Anthropology, and has conducted research on schooling and culture in the United States, as well as in French Polynesia and Papua New Guinea. Her writings have addressed teacher preparation, home-school relationships, curriculum design, and the social and cultural aspects of student performance.
In addition to her work within the Teacher Education Program, Dr. Levin serves as affiliated faculty in UCSD's Program in Human Development and Department of Anthropology.
Robin Scarcella
Representing: UC Irvine, 1990-2009
Email: rcscarce@uci.edu
Phone: (949) 824-7305Director of the ESL Program and Lecturer of the ESL Program/Linguistics Department.
She has written over twenty articles on ESL teaching and L2 acquisition, edited three volumes and written one book. Her articles have appeared in such journals as the TESOL quarterly, Language Learning, Brain and Language and Second Language Research.
She received her doctoral degree in Linguistics at the University of Southern California and her masters in Second Language Acquisition-Education from Stanford University.
Laura Sterponi
Representing: UC Berkeley, 2006-2009
Email: sterponi@berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 642-0287Assistant Professor, Language and Literacy, Society and Culture.
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Applied Linguistics
Ph.D., University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy), Developmental PsychologyAreas of Specialization / Interests: Language Socialization and Development, Literacy, Reading Development
In doing research on the nexus of literacy, culture and cognition Laura Sterponi merges her double background in Developmental Psychology and in Applied Linguistics. Specifically, she focuses on reading as cognitive and socio-cultural activity: she examines modes of human involvement with text and how they are intricately structured by historically rooted social conventions and cultural ideologies.
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