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Marva Solomon

Mentor:Wanda Brooks

Marva Solomon is an assistant professor in the department of teacher education at Angelo State University. Her research interests center around the intersection of culture, creativity and technology for primary aged readers and writers. She received an internal grant to research the role of technology in improving the academic language growth of English Language Learners. Publications include a chapter in Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change and Assessment in the 21st Century Classroom (2010) concerning 2nd graders’ writing on the internet, as well as a 2012 article published in Talking Points (NCTE) titled, “Why can’t you just say, ‘It’s cute?’” The role of audience in first graders’ digital storytelling. Dr. Solomon is the director of the Pearl of the Concho Writing Project at Angelo State University and facilitated writing camps for teachers, teens, and young writers in the summer of 2014.

Silvia Noguerón-Liu

Mentors: Patricia Enciso and Marjorie Orellana Faulstich

Silvia Noguerón-Liu is an assistant professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia. Her teaching, research and service are grounded ion socio-cultural and critical perspectives to digital literacies in classroom, family, and community contexts. In her instruction and scholarship, Dr. Noguerón-Liu aims to create learning environments where educators recognize and leverage as resources the funds of knowledge of culturally and linguistically diverse students, including student and family participation in literacy practices in local and transnational spaces. Her publications, courses, and grant activity all contribute to the following interrelated areas: (a) the study of literacy practices in transnational contexts from ethnographic perspectives, where learning resources flow across individuals’ sending and receiving nations; (b) the study of digital literacies’ potential for identity construction through digital writing, reading, and communication practices; and (c) participatory action research approaches to adult and family literacy projects. Her work has been published in the 61st Yearbook of the Literacy Research Association, Learning, Media & Technology, and the International Multilingual Research Journal.

P. Zitlali Morales

Mentor: Kathleen Hinchman

P. Zitlali Morales is Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education, and affiliated faculty of the Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) program at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She examines the linguistic interaction of students and teachers through the use of discourse analysis and other qualitative methods. She views language acquisition from a sociocultural perspective as participants learning to use language through the use of cultural practices, and specializes in additive models of language acquisition for emergent bilinguals. Her research focuses on preparing teachers to meet their multilingual students’ needs by leveraging the language and cultural knowledge that students bring to the classroom. Other research projects include exploring the learner identities of linguistic minority students in Spanish-English dual immersion programs and studying how language ideologies affect the context of schooling for immigrant students and multilingual learners. She is co-PI on a National Science Foundation funded project, “Literacy and New Communication Technologies in Contexts of Transnational Migration” studying the digital literacy practices and transnational ties of immigrant youth. Her most recent co-authored manuscript can be found in Anthropology and Education Quarterly titled, \“¿PurasGroserías?: Rethinking the role of profanity and graphic humor in Latin@ students’ bilingual wordplay.\”