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Jasmine Alvarado

Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy
University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Family engagement in K-8 schools, school and community partnerships, the intersection of race, class, and language in education, elementary education, and bilingual/dual language education. 

Portrait of Jasmine Alvarado.

Jasmine Alvarado can speak to the news media about the intersections between societal inequities, educational policies, and the multiliteracies/experiences of racially minoritized families in K-8 schools.

Her ethnographic, narrative, and participatory research draws on understandings and approaches from critical race, sociocultural, and feminist poststructuralist theories. She examines K-8 educational policies and practices about family engagement, bilingual education programs, and the literacies/languaging of racially minoritized groups. She also reports on how families from racially minoritized groups leverage their knowledge traditions and literacies to resist societal inequities and create liberatory possibilities.

Her commitment towards collective learning, organizing, and interconnectedness stem from her experiences as a student, teacher, and after-school program director of New York City Public Schools, and being a member/caretaker of an Ecuadorian family with Quechua roots.

LANGUAGES:

Alvarado can respond to interview requests in English and Spanish.

CONTACT:

Jasmine Alvarado, PhD
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy
University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education

NEWS ABOUT JASMINE ALVARADO