Marina's CV
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2023 Major: Educational Studies
Area of concentration: Cultural Foundations
Title of Dissertation: “The United States, it’s supposed to be where dreams come true”: Rhizomatic Familias, Nested Policy Contexts and the Attendant Shaping of Undocumented and Mixed-Status Students’ Lived Experiences in North Carolina
Dissertation Defense: February 13, 2023, passed successfully
Graduation Date: May 4, 2023
M.A.T. Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
2018 Major: Teaching
Area of concentration: Secondary English, 2018
M.A. University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
2008 Major: International Relations and European Studies
B.A. University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
2006 Major: English Literature and Creative Writing
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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➢ U.S. Immigration Policy
➢ Education Policy
➢ Urban Education
➢ Antiracist education
➢ Student voice, community engaged practice, Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR).
➢ Educators as “street level” policy actors and immigrant youth.
➢ The Politics of Education, federal role of education.
➢ Intersections of migration, education policy, and race.
AWARDS & HONORS
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2023-2026 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Loyola University Maryland, NSF Funded Project.
2021-2023 Luther Winborne Self Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2022 UNCG Graduate School Summer Doctoral Student Research Assistantship
2021 UNCG Graduate School Summer Doctoral Student Research Assistantship
2020 UNCG Graduate School Summer Doctoral Student Research Assistantship
2019-2022 Graduate Teaching and Research Associate, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2019 UNCG Graduate School Summer Graduate Research Assistantship
2018-2023 Helena Gabriel Houston Scholarship, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
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2023-Present Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Equity, Leadership, and Social Justice in Education (CELSJE), School of Education, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD. NSF Funded Project (award #2247636): “Latinas Resistance Behaviors in Engineering at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): An Intersectional View”.
2022-2023 Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of Education, Wake Forest
University, Winston-Salem, NC.
2019-2023 Senior Teaching Associate, Department of Educational Leadership and
Cultural Foundations, University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
Greensboro, NC.
2018-2023 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Educational Leadership and
Cultural Foundations, University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
Greensboro, NC.
2008-2009 E.S.L. Instructor and Lecturer in English, CTL Eurocollege, Limassol,
Cyprus
K-12 EXPERIENCE
2018 English Language Arts Teacher, Rockingham County Public Schools
2016-2017 Leading Teacher, YMCA JUNTOS After School Tutoring Program,
John F. Kennedy High School, Winston-Salem Forsyth County Public
Schools
2013-2018 English Language Arts Teacher, Winston-Salem Forsyth County Public
Schools
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
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2009-2012 Press Officer, Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus, Washington, DC.
➢ Drafting official reports for the Cypriot Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
➢ Leading and participating in public relations events for the Embassy of Cyprus, such as EU Open House Tours, EU Embassy Night, and EU cultural events.
➢ Conducting tours for Embassy visitors and participating in “Embassy Adoption” program by visiting K-12 public schools in the Washington DC area and conducting presentations in classrooms.
➢ Managing Embassy website, social media presence, and communications strategy.
➢ Participating in team coordinating Cyprus exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
RESEARCH
Journal Articles
Lambrinou, M. (under review). “Is it me? Am I dumb?” Examining the Nested Policy Contexts and
Educational Experiences of Migrant Youth in North Carolina. Equity and Excellence in Education.
Shi, Q., Phillips, K. & Lambrinou, M. (under review). Latina English Learners’ Persistence in STEM
Undergraduate Programs: Framed within the Community Cultural Wealth Model. International Journal
of Qualitative Studies in Education.
Lambrinou, M. & Mansfield, K.C. (under review). Culturally Responsive Leadership: A Critical Analysis of
One School District’s Five-Year Plan With Implications for High School Implementation. The High School Journal.
Lambrinou, M. & Mansfield, K.C. (in progress). Sticks and Stones and Names That Hurt Us: A
CRT Analysis of Policy Discourses in Alexandria City Public Schools, Virginia. Urban Education.
Mansfield, K.C. & Lambrinou, M. (2021). “This is not who we are”: Students leading for
anti-racist policy changes in Alexandria City Public Schools, Virginia.
Educational Policy, 36(1), 19-56.
Lambrinou, M. (2020). Book Review of “The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the
Migrant Trail” by Jason De Leon for Journal for Leadership, Equity, and Research, 6(1).
https://journals.sfu.ca/cvj/index.php/cvj/article/view/85
Book Chapters
Rodriguez, S., Lambrinou, M., & Acree, J. (2022). Normalization, problematization, and
racialization: A conceptual framework for understanding Latinx immigrant youth
experiences in the U.S.. In S. Rodriguez & G. Conchas (Eds). Race Frames: Structuring
Inequality and Opportunity in a Changing Educational Landscape. Teachers College
Press.
Kout, Y. & Lambrinou, M. (2021). Video games as free speech: Reproducing
inequalities and pushing justice to the margins. In S. Jovanovic (Ed.), Finding Expression
in Contested Spaces. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.
Conference Presentations
Mansfield, K.C. & Lambrinou, M. (2023). Students as Policy Actors Enacting Change
in Virginia Public Schools. The American Educational Research Association (AERA),
Chicago, Illinois (April 13-16, 2023).
Salisbury, J.D., Welton, A., Mansfield, K.C., Sheth, M., Lac. V., Dominguez, A., Clement, V.,
Bertrand, M., Lambrinou, M., Bessa, A.C., Truck, J.D., Cezmack, J. & Harris. O. (2022).
Working with Youth of Color as Educational Leaders and Policy Actors. University
Council for Educational Administration, Seattle, Washington (November 17-20, 2022).
Welton, A., Mansfield, K.C., Salisbury, J.D., Sheth, M., Lambrinou, M. & Harris, O. (2022)
Symposium Session: The Politics of Student Voice as Critical Pedagogy, Community
Activism, and Policy Leadership. The American Educational Studies Association,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (November 2-6, 2022).
Mansfield, K.C. & Lambrinou, M. (2021). #ChangeTheName: One school district’s response to
student and community activism in the age of #BlackLivesMatter. The American
Educational Studies Association, Portland, Oregon.
Lambrinou, M. & Bennett, C. (2020) Queering Border-Crossing Pedagogy. American
Educational Research Association Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA
http://tinyurl.com/us3r6qu (Conference canceled due to Covid-19 pandemic).
Bennett, C., Lambrinou, M. & Sauka, A. (2020). Posthuman Ethics of Joy. Comparative
International Educational Studies Association, Miami, FL (Conference canceled due to
Covid-19 pandemic).
Lambrinou, M. & Bennet, C. (2020). Queering Border-Crossing Pedagogy. Comparative
International Educational Studies Association, Miami, FL (Conference canceled due to
Covid-19 pandemic).
Bennett, C. & Lambrinou, M. (2020). Rhizomatic Citizenship as Democratic Practice.
Southeastern Immigration Studies Association Conference, Charleston, SC.
Rodriguez, S. & Lambrinou, M. (2020). “They let you back in the country?” Racialized
Inequity and the Miseducation of Latinx Undocumented Students in the New Latino South.
Southeastern Immigration Studies Association Conference, Charleston, SC.
Mansfield, K., Lambrinou, M. (2019). Going from “Bad Hombres” to “Familia”: Resisting
Trumpism in Culturally Responsive School and Community Programs. American
Educational Studies Association, Baltimore, MD.
Lambrinou, M. & Kout, Y. (2019). Video Games as Free Speech: Reproducing Inequalities and
Pushing Justice to the Margins. Finding Expression in Contested Public Spaces: Free Speech Conference. Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Grants
2018-2022 UNCG Graduate School Summer Doctoral Student Research Assistantship
2019 Departmental Initiatives Funds, Educational Leadership & Cultural Foundations,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, $150.
2020 The Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, $500
2022 Departmental Initiatives Funds, Educational Leadership & Cultural Foundations,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, $250.
2022 The Graduate School, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, $500
2023 Departmental Initiatives Funds, Educational Leadership & Cultural Foundations,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, $250
TEACHING
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Sections taught:
ELC 381-01: Cultural Foundations of Education (Spring 2023)
ELC 381-01: Cultural Foundations of Education (Fall 2022)
ELC 381-01: Cultural Foundations of Education (Spring 2022)
ELC 381-01: Cultural Foundations of Education (Fall 2021)
ELC 381-03: Cultural Foundations of Education (Spring 2021)
ELC 381-03: Cultural Foundations of Education (Fall 2020)
ELC 381-03: Cultural Foundations of Education (Spring 2020)
ELC 381-03: Cultural Foundations of Education (Fall 2019)
Wake Forest University
Sections taught:
EDU 201 Section D: Educational Policy & Practice (Fall 2022)
CTL Eurocollege, Limassol, Cyprus
Sections taught:
ESL Course -- The Fundamentals of Business English (Summer 2008)
ESL Course -- The Fundamentals of Business English (Fall 2008)
ESL Course -- The Fundamentals of Business English (Spring 2009)
ESL Course -- The Fundamentals of Business English (Summer 2009)
SERVICE
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National/International
2021-present Peer reviewer for the journal, Educational Policy
2020-present Managing Editor at International Journal of Critical Pedagogy
➢ Managing Editor Role:
○ Managing journal sections/announcements.
○ Editing/updating information for IJCP users.
○ Handling all communication with authors and reviewers.
○ Processing submissions: Ensuring that submissions conform to guidelines.
○ Assigning peer reviewers.
○ Copyediting and proofreading revised, peer reviewed submissions.
○ Submitting submissions for publication.
2019-2020: Peer Reviewer for book manuscript, Race Frames: Structuring Inequality and Opportunity in a Changing Educational Landscape (Rodriguez & Conchas, 2022).
University
2023-Present: Center for Equity, Leadership, and Social Justice in Education (CELSJE), Faculty Fellow, Loyola University Maryland
2023-Present: ALANA (African, Latinx, Asian, and Native American) Services, Loyola University Maryland
2020-2023: Center for New North Carolinians Fellow, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
2021-2023: Allianza member, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
School/Department
2021-2022 Workshop Organizer & Moderator, ELC Critical Conversations Professional Development Series
2020-2021 Graduate Student Association Representative, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
March 15, 2023: Guest Speaker and Session Leader – Educational Leadership Research Methods I,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Outside the Department
December 11, 2023: Invited speaker, Center for Equity, Leadership, and Social Justice in Education (CELSJE): The Center Podcast.
October 17, 2022: Invited speaker at Wake Forest University’s EDU Professional Learning Series Virtual Panel: “Supporting Immigrant Students and Families in North Carolina.”
September 16, 2021: Guest panelist at Common Threads: Discussing Video Games as Free Speech: Reproducing Inequalities and Pushing Justice to the Margins.
July 19, 2019: Guest speaker: “Anti-racist education,” Association for Dialogue and Historical Research (ADHR), Nicosia, Cyprus.
September 2016: Workshop Organizer & Moderator, Project-based learning and social justice. John F. Kennedy High School, Winston-Salem, NC.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
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American Educational Research Association (AERA): Div. G, Div. L & PEA Sig member
American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)
University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)
CERTIFICATIONS
North Carolina Professional Educator’s License: English 6-12, Number 1179047
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
➢ Trilingual: First language is Greek; fluent speaker, reader, and writer of English, competent speaker, reader, and writer of French.
➢ Proficiency in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Prezis Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets, and Google Drive, website design, Nearpod, Actively Learn, Imovie, podcasts, webcasts.
➢ Experience in qualitative and mixed methods research.
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
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Dr. Qi Shi,
Associate Professor, School Counseling Program,
Director, Center for Equity, Leadership, and Social Justice in Education (CELSJE),
School of Education, Loyola University Maryland
qshi@loyola.edu
Dr. Katherine C. Mansfield
Professor & Mike Moses Endowed Chair, Teacher Education and Administration,
College of Education, University of North Texas
katherine.mansfield@unt.edu
Dr. Craig Peck (Committee Member)
Associate Professor and Department Chair, Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations
School of Education, UNC Greensboro
c_peck@uncg.edu
Dr. Leila Villaverde (Committee Member)
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations,
School of Education, UNC Greensboro, levillav@uncg.edu
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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March 24, 2023: Immigrant Mountaineer Movement Spring Conference, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
February 18, 2023: The 1619 Education Conference, Pulitzer Center, Keynote Speech: Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
February 18-19, 2023: The 1619 Education Conference: Pulitzer Center [Virtual].
February 15, 2023: African American Policy Forum [Virtual]: When Racial Reckoning and Anti-Wokeness Collide: What’s Left Out of AP Black Studies and Why Everyone Should Care: Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw, Dr. Cheryl Harris, Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley, and Janai Nelson.
November 4, 2022: American Educational Studies Association 2022 Panel: “Youth of Color Social Movements for Racial Justice: The Politics of Interrogating the School to Prison Pipeline” by Dr. Anjale Welton and Dr. Octavia Harris.
November 4, 2022: American Educational Studies Association 2022 Panel: “School’s a Lie’: Toward Critical Race Intersectional Pedagogy for Youth Intellectual Activism for Policy Partnerships by Dr. Jason D. Salisbury and Dr. Manali J. Sheth.
September 14, 2022: Latinx Education Summit/Simposio de Educacion Latina 2022: Suenos en Accion/From Dreams to Action, with Keynote Speaker Dr. Sharon Contreras, moderated by NC Representative Ricky Hurtado and Latinx Ed Executive Director Elaine Townsend Utin.
September 14, 2022: Latinx Education Summit Panel: “It Takes A Village”: Equitable Strategies to Support Immigrant Families with Andrea Freile (Family & Cultural Engagement, Duplin County Schools), Pablo Friedmann (Multilingual Resource Center, Durham Public Schools), Juana Hernandez-Lira (Spanish Services, College Foundation of North Carolina) and Dr. Maria Rosa Rangel (Equity Affairs, Wake County Public Schools).
January 20, 2022: “The Impact of the January 6th Insurrection: An Open Discussion,” Common Threads Discussion, moderated by Drs. Charles Egerton and Yacine Kout.
December 16, 2021: “Critical Race Theory: An Open Discussion,” Common Threads Discussion, moderated by Drs. Charles Egerton and Yacine Kout.
December 2, 2021: ELC Career Talk II: “Faculty Search: What Happens Behind The Scenes?” Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, UNC Greensboro.
September 23, 2021: Preparing Future Faculty Networking. Graduate School, UNC Greensboro.
September 22, 2021: Roberto Gonzales, Richard Perry University Professor of Sociology and Education, University of Pennsylvania: “DACA and the Limits of Citizenship” at Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania Forum on Migration.
September 17, 2021: CUNY Graduate Center Sociology Program Immigration Seminar Series: “Irene Bloemraad: The Ethics of Migration Research and the Drive for Scientific Accountability.”
September 10, 2021: ELC Critical Conversation Fall 2021 Keynote Address at the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, UNC Greensboro: “Educational Leadership for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion” with Drs. Sarah Diem and Anjale Welton.
September 2, 2021: Effects of the pandemic on high school English learners and ways to help them recover,” Migration Policy Institute, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy Webinar.
April 7, 2021: Immigration Initiative at Harvard via Facebook. “The Deportation Machine: America’s long history of expelling immigrants” talk with Adam Goodman. https://www.facebook.com/iiharvard/videos/244133107398573/
April 7, 2021: ELC Critical Conversations Workshop: “From Completed Dissertation to Presentation(s) and Publication(s),” Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, UNC Greensboro.
June 4, 2020: ELC Critical Conversation: Black Lives Matter, Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, UNC Greensboro.
February 21, 2020: Southeastern Immigration Studies Association Conference: 287(g) Policy breakdown in North Carolina by Dr. Felicia Arriaga.
November 1-3, 2019: AESA (The American Educational Studies Association) conference, Baltimore, MD.
October 25, 2019: Finding Expression in Contested Spaces Free Speech Conference Panels, 8 am -3 pm, Department of Communications, UNC Greensboro.
October 24, 2019: Finding Expression in Contested Spaces Free Speech Conference Keynote Address with Dr. Eric King Watts: “Tribalism, Voicelessness, and the Problem of Free Speech,” Department of Communications, UNC Greensboro.
April 13, 2019: ELC Critical Conversations Workshops, Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, UNC Greensboro.
April 12, 2019: ELC Critical Conversations Keynote Address: “Teaching and Leading for Social Justice in current times,” Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations, UNC Greensboro.