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Please enjoy learning about my research, as developed through the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On this website, I share how school structures aim to address the needs and realities of immigrant, particularly Latino, parents, and while considering some of the challenges to these strategies.
Please enjoy learning about my research, as developed through the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On this website, I share how school structures aim to address the needs and realities of immigrant, particularly Latino, parents, and while considering some of the challenges to these strategies.
Research Questions:
Research Questions:
What efforts are made by school administrators to address the needs of Latino families in North Carolina schools systems?
What efforts are made by school administrators to address the needs of Latino families in North Carolina schools systems?
What existing structural and systemic forces determine the success of these efforts?
What existing structural and systemic forces determine the success of these efforts?
Me, my mom, and my grandmother at my mom's wedding in Yucay, Peru.
Me, my mom, and my grandmother at my mom's wedding in Yucay, Peru.
Why Is This Important to Me?
Why Is This Important to Me?
I was raised in a town just north of Boston by my Peruvian mother, Gisela, and American father, Bradley. My parents separated when I was young and my mom took on most of the child rearing. The town that I grew up in is largely white and I always felt like my family stuck out, especially in school. It felt like my Mom's voice, perspective, and knowledge did not have a place in my education and in turn, that she was somehow less than the other moms. As I have grown up, I have started to think more critically about how non-white, specifically Latino, families are treated within public schools and how schools can, but often fail to be, a place of community development and collective growth. By sharing a bit about my identity with you all, I hope to highlight the centrality of identity in the research process and embrace all that it brings, rather than deny it in the name of objectivity.
I was raised in a town just north of Boston by my Peruvian mother, Gisela, and American father, Bradley. My parents separated when I was young and my mom took on most of the child rearing. The town that I grew up in is largely white and I always felt like my family stuck out, especially in school. It felt like my Mom's voice, perspective, and knowledge did not have a place in my education and in turn, that she was somehow less than the other moms. As I have grown up, I have started to think more critically about how non-white, specifically Latino, families are treated within public schools and how schools can, but often fail to be, a place of community development and collective growth. By sharing a bit about my identity with you all, I hope to highlight the centrality of identity in the research process and embrace all that it brings, rather than deny it in the name of objectivity.
Why a Website?
Why a Website?
I encourage all scholars to constantly question how we can make our work as accessible and engaging as possible. This entails rethinking and unlearning the ways in which we communicate research. I hope that this website succeeds in breaking down some of the barriers that are presented to non academics in accessing research. By utilizing a more accessible medium, I engage in the work that needs to be done to dismantle Eurocentric, elitist conceptions of how valid knowledge looks, sounds, and is shared. I was deeply inspired by the work of Dr. Mai Nguyen, director of MURAP, and hope to contribute the movement towards research about the people, for the people.
I encourage all scholars to constantly question how we can make our work as accessible and engaging as possible. This entails rethinking and unlearning the ways in which we communicate research. I hope that this website succeeds in breaking down some of the barriers that are presented to non academics in accessing research. By utilizing a more accessible medium, I engage in the work that needs to be done to dismantle Eurocentric, elitist conceptions of how valid knowledge looks, sounds, and is shared. I was deeply inspired by the work of Dr. Mai Nguyen, director of MURAP, and hope to contribute the movement towards research about the people, for the people.
How to Navigate This Website:
How to Navigate This Website:
Use the menu on the top of your screen as a guide. I welcome you to begin by learning a bit about me, why I have chosen to research this topic, and the overall importance of this work on the "Why?" tab. Then, to get an idea of how I have chosen to conduct my analysis, please go to the proceeding tab, "About the Data?" I then communicate the story that the data tells on the "Findings" tab. Lastly, I situate this work within larger frameworks and theories on the "Theoretical Frameworks" tab and then give insight into the limitations of this research, how I imagine future directions, and my envisioned implications on the "Beyond This Project" tab. I urge you to navigate this website in whichever way is most comfortable to you and allows for the most fruitful engagement with my work. Please enjoy!
Use the menu on the top of your screen as a guide. I welcome you to begin by learning a bit about me, why I have chosen to research this topic, and the overall importance of this work on the "Why?" tab. Then, to get an idea of how I have chosen to conduct my analysis, please go to the proceeding tab, "About the Data?" I then communicate the story that the data tells on the "Findings" tab. Lastly, I situate this work within larger frameworks and theories on the "Theoretical Frameworks" tab and then give insight into the limitations of this research, how I imagine future directions, and my envisioned implications on the "Beyond This Project" tab. I urge you to navigate this website in whichever way is most comfortable to you and allows for the most fruitful engagement with my work. Please enjoy!
I would like to thank Dr. Kumi Silva for her mentorship throughout this research process. She has been instrumental in pushing me to think outside of the box and her faith in me motivates me to great heights. Without her, this work would not be what it is today.
I would like to thank Dr. Kumi Silva for her mentorship throughout this research process. She has been instrumental in pushing me to think outside of the box and her faith in me motivates me to great heights. Without her, this work would not be what it is today.
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