Staff

Jody A. Slavick
Research Associate • Literacy Squared
School of Education

Estella Almanza
Adams 12 Project Director • Professional Research Assistant

Lorenso Aragon
Project Director
BUENO Center

Gisela Cardenas
CAMP Recruiter & Retention Specialist

Jessely Chaparro
CAMP Program Coordinator
BUENO Center

Robert Garcia
CAMP Director • Research Associate
BUENO Center

Francisco Giles
BUENO Center

Yesenia Gomez
High school Equivalency Program (HEP)

Deena Gumina
TILDE Project Director • Assistant Teaching Professor
School of Education

Debra Haffey
Business Services Program Director
School of Education / BUENO Center

Tania Hogan
Executive Director
BUENO Center

Natalie Koster
Graduate Program Coordinator • (she/her)

Tammy Molinar-LeBlanc
Project Director
BUENO Center

Jason Romero, Jr.
Director, Chicano & Latino History Project

Ernesto Sanchez
HEP Project Director
BUENO Center

Kim Strong
Research Associate
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Ichigo Takikawa
Communications Specialist

Shelly Wyss
High school Equivalency Program (HEP)
Faculty

Alison Boardman
Associate Professor • Program Chair
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Kathy Escamilla
Bob and Judy Charles Endowed Chair of Education and Professor
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Mileidis Gort
Professor
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Susan Hopewell
Associate Professor of Equity Bilingualism and Biliteracy • Executive Director of Literacy Squared

Rebecca Linares
Assistant Professor
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Deb Palmer
Professor
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Vanessa Santiago Schwarz
Assistant Teaching Professor
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Jamy Stillman
Associate Professor • Program Chair of Elementary Teacher Education
Graduate Students

Caitie Dougherty
Graduate Student
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Molly Hamm-Rodríguez
Graduate Student
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Devon Hedrick-Shaw
Graduate Student
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy • Teacher Learning • Research & Practice

Elizabeth Silva
Graduate Student • TILDE
School of Education

Mary Beth Snow Balderas
Graduate Student • TILDE
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Lydia Sollenberger
Graduate Student
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy
BUENO Legacy

Sandra Butvilofsky
Principal Investigator, TILDE
BUENO Center

Caitlin Fine
Graduate Student
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Rebecca Flores
Graduate Student
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Daniel Garzon
Graduate Student
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Laura Hamman-Ortiz
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity

John Hoover
Research Associate Professor • Project Director
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

Alexandra McGrath
Graduate Student
Equity • Bilingualism & Biliteracy

David Nieto
Project Director
BUENO Center

Jesús Rodríguez
Project Associate
BUENO Center

Maria Ruiz-Martinez
Graduate Student
Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity

Astrid Sambolin-Morales
Graduate Student
School of Education