Profiles in "Language and Identity" Expertise Area

  • Dr. Catalina Cayetano's most recent work focuses on the interdependency of the (Im)migrant parent/child dialogic cultural relationship and the relational impacts of cultural intermediation in the technolinguistic experience.
  • Cory A. Buckband, Ph.D. is a 2024 graduate in Educational Policy & Evaluation at MLFTC. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Educational Language Policy and Diversity in Family & Community Engagement.
  • Yalda M. Kaveh is an assistant professor of Bilingual Education at MLFTC. Her work focuses on language policy, bi/multilingualism in (im)migrant families, family engagement in education, and culturally sustaining pedagogies.
  • Ernesto L. Abeytia is a Spanish-American poet and teacher, specializing in bilingual poetry and poetics, modern and contemporary American poetry, and Latinx poetry.
  • Tipsuda is a doctoral candidate, part-time lecturer and a full-time research assistant at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College
  • World language and mathematics secondary educator, innovator, and life-long learner