Bridging Universities & Communities:
A Binational Inquiry
Panel Discussion
Monday, October 14, 2024 @ 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST
3440 Market Street - 5th Floor - Penn GSE
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Meet the Sponsors:
The Hub for Equity, Anti-Oppression, Research, and Development
Founded in 2018, the purpose of The Hub for Equity, Anti-Oppression, Research, and Development (HEARD) is to organize professional events and scholarship that addresses issues related to racial literacy, systemic racism, gender equity, and linguistic diversity across diverse perspectives of the Penn community.
Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership,
M.S. Ed. Candidate
GAPSA International Student Affairs Committee Member
University Council Honorary Degree Committee Member
Research Assistant, HEARD
Graduate School of Education,
University of Pennsylvania
bmeru@upenn.edu
(He/Him/His)
Meruyert Bizhanova
Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership,
M.S. Ed. Candidate
GAPSA International Student Affairs Committee Member
University Council Honorary Degree Committee Member
Research Assistant, HEARD
Graduate School of Education,
University of Pennsylvania
bmeru@upenn.edu
(She/Her/Hers)
Yanil De La Rosa, M.S.
STEAM Urban Educator & Mentor
Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education, Ed.D. Candidate
HEARD & PEACE Institute
Reserach Assistant
Graduate School of Education,
University of Pennsylvania
(She/Her/Hers/Ella)
Gerald Campano, Ph.D.
Professor in Writing Reading, and Literacy Department
Learning, Teaching, and Literacies
Co-Director of HEARD
Peace Institute, Researcher
Graduate School of Education,
University of Pennsylvania
(He/Him/His)
Charlotte Jacobs, Ph.D.
Charlotte Jacobs, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Penn's Independent School Teaching Residency Program
Co-Director of HEARD
Graduate School of Education,
University of Pennsylvania
Co-Founder, EnGenderED Research Collaborative
chjacobs@upenn.edu
(She/Her/Hers)
Bringing the World to Penn and Penn to the World
Penn Global provides strategic direction to the University of Pennsylvania on its global endeavors, with a focus on the efficient investment of university resources. Encompassing seven reporting offices, Penn Global leverages its broad and deep expertise to advise the University on its global activities and to collaborate with Penn’s schools, centers, communities and partners to deliver a comprehensive suite of global programming that generates positive impact around the world.
The University of Guadalajara is a fundamental institution for the formation of high quality human resources and the production of scientific and technological knowledge that support the development of Jalisco. The cultural life and artistic wealth of the western region of Mexico could not be accounted for without the pioneering and unique contribution of the University of Guadalajara.
Our faculty is renowned as one of the most important in Mexico.
The University Center for Art, Architecture and Design is a department of the University of Guadalajara dedicated to training quality, innovative and committed professionals in the disciplines of arts, architecture and design. In the field of culture and outreach, it supports the generation and application of knowledge, education and scientific and technological research, within a framework of respect and sustainability to improve the social environment.
The ITRALI Transdisciplinary Institute of Literacy is the academic space through which the University of Guadalajara aims to respond to the problem of reading, writing, and multimodal literacy to improve education through the generation and application of knowledge on literacy, contributing to training human resources. High-level students develop their discursive significance skills, innovate their educational practices, and become empowered in the fight for literacy to occupy a place of primary importance on the public and government agenda as a fundamental right of Mexicans.
Meet the Moderator & Respondent
Charlotte E. Jacobs, Ph.D.
Charlotte E. Jacobs earned her Ph.D. in the Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education program at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. Her research interests focus on issues related to the intersections of identity, race, and gender in education concerning students, teachers, and schools; justice-centered teacher preparation practices; and participatory action research methods. Charlotte is the co-founder of the EnGenderED Research Collaborative, a space for research, program development, and practitioner training. She has also co-authored two books, Teaching Girls: How Parents and Teachers Can Reach Their Brains & Hearts (Rowman & Littlefield) and Investing in the Educational Success of Black Women and Girls (Stylus), and has authored several journal articles.
Charlotte is currently an adjunct associate professor and the director for the Independent School Teaching Residency program (ISTR) at Penn GSE. In this role, Charlotte coordinates and designs the residency-based collaborative teacher education program. Charlotte also teaches a course on adolescent development in the Urban Teaching Residency program (UTR) at Penn GSE.
In addition to serving on the Penn FQT/GSWS (Feminist, Queer, Transgender center and Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies program) Executive Board, Charlotte proudly serves as a board member for the Girls Justice League, the Christina Seix Academy, and the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls.
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Email: chjacobs@gse.upenn.edu
Meet the Panelists
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Email: guiso@tc.columbia.edu
Maria Paula Ghiso, Ed.D.
Maria Paula Ghiso, Ed.D.
María Paula Ghiso is Professor of Literacy Education and Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her scholarship investigates literacy in multilingual and transnational contexts and community-based research methodologies. She has published in venues such as Teachers College Record, Research in the Teaching of English, Language Arts, Harvard Educational Review, Urban Education, and Journal of Literacy Research. María Paula is co-author of Partnering with immigrant communities: Action through Literacy (Teachers College Press) and Methods for community-based research: Advancing educational justice and epistemic rights (Routledge). María Paula & Gerald’s collective work with the Communities Advancing Research in Education (CARE) Initiative in Philadelphia received the 2023 Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education from AERA (the American Educational Research Association).
Gerald Campano, Ph.D.
Gerald Campano, Ph.D.
Gerald Campano is Professor of Literacy Studies at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He is a former classroom teacher in Houston Texas and California’s Central Valley. Gerald’s research focuses on elementary education, critical literacy, the lives and learning of immigrant students, and participatory research methodologies. His teaching and scholarship have garnered multiple recognitions, including the David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English from the National Council for the Teachers of English in 2009 and 2018, as well as the Edward B. Fry Book Award from the Literacy Research Association in 2017. Gerald received the 2024 Steve Witte Lifetime Achievement Award from AERA’s Writing and Literacies SIG.
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Email: campano@upenn.edu
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Email: thakurta@bc.edu
Ankhi Thakurta, Ph.D.
Ankhi Thakurta, Ph.D.
Ankhi G. Thakurta is an Assistant Professor in the Teaching, Curriculum, and Society Department at the Boston College Lynch School of Education and Human Development. A bilingual Indian American immigrant and former middle school English language arts teacher, her current research foregrounds the civic literacies and learning of immigrant, migrant, and refugee youth. She is interested in how these young people use everyday literacy practices (e.g., reading, writing, artmaking) to assert democratic identities and how critical literacy education can foster their sociopolitical engagement and dreaming. As a visual artist, Thakurta also explores how art-infused research methods can be used to conduct liberatory scholarship alongside historically marginalized communities.
Thakurta holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College, an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M,A. from Brooklyn College, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
Yanil De La Rosa, M.S.
Yanil De La Rosa, M.S.
Yanil De La Rosa is a first-generation, Afro-Dominicana from the Bronx, New York, earning a Doctorate of Education in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She joined Penn's Graduate School of Education with 16 years of experience as an Urban STEAM Leader and Educator, and currently serves as a Research Assistant for The Hub for Equity, Anti-Oppression, Research, and Development (HEARD) and Penn's Educational Alliance for Change and Equity (PEACE) Institute. Yanil formerly supported the National Science Foundation Project - Exploring Computer Science: Stitching the Loop, the Collaboratory for Teacher Education, and Catalyst at PennGSE.
In these capacities, Yanil De La Rosa studies students of color’s access, and perseverance through STEAM curricula in urban settings, the design of innovative, culturally-responsive, healing-centered, and justice-oriented learning environments, and mentorship and coaching of STEAM teachers. Her unshakable passion to particularly support girls, women, and teachers of color in STEAM stems from her personal and professional experiences in earning a Bachelor's and Master's in Mathematics and Mathematics Education and implementing STEAM educational programs in under-performing, under-resourced, and under-represented urban settings.
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Email: yanil@upenn.edu
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Email: patricia.rosas@academicos.udg.mx
Patricia Rosas Chávez, Ph.D.
Patricia Rosas Chávez, Ph.D.
Dr. Rosas holds a Ph.D. in City, Territory, and Sustainability from the University Center of Art, Architecture, and Design (CUAAD) at the University of Guadalajara, and a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. She is a full-time tenured professor and a member of the Academic Body on Educational Innovation and New Literacies at the University of Guadalajara. She is also a Level I member of Mexico’s National System of Researchers (SNI). Dr. Rosas has collaborated with the OECD and Mexico's Ministry of Public Education on both international and national educational innovation projects focused on learning outcomes, mobile teaching, digital learning communities, competencies, and cognitive skills development. She also leads the university's reading promotion program, Letras para Volar, through which she fosters a love of reading, literacy development, and access to books. Additionally, Dr. Rosas recently served as Director of the Transdisciplinary Literacy Institute at UdeG, where she led various research projects and publications, including the book Developing a Culturally and Historically Sensitive Teacher Education, published by Bloomsbury's academic division, which was a finalist for the 2021 Book of the Year award from the UK Literacy Association. Currently, she is the Director of the University Center of Chapala.
María Luisa García Yerenas, Ph.D.
María Luisa García Yerenas, Ph.D.
Dr. Yerenas is a research professor at the Institute for Research and City Studies (IN CIUDADES) and the Center for Environmental Research and Land Management (CIMA) at the University Center of Art, Architecture, and Design, University of Guadalajara, Mexico. She holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. She completed her undergraduate studies in Architecture and earned a Master's degree in Processes and Graphic Expression in Architectural-Urban Design at the University of Guadalajara.
Her research and publications focus on processes in architecture and urbanism, urban planning, and cultural heritage. She is recognized as a Level I member of Mexico's National System of Researchers (SNI-CONACYT) by the National Council of Science and Technology.
Currently, she is a tenured professor in the Department of Urban Projects and serves as the Coordinator of the Master's program in Processes and Graphic Expression in Architectural-Urban Design. She holds the Prodep Profile recognition and has been a visiting professor at the University of Seville.
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Email: maria.gyerena@academicos.udg.mx
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Email: isabel.lopez@cuaad.udg.mx
Isabel López Pérez, Ph.D.
Architect and industrial designer, Isabel López Pérez holds a Master's degree in Processes and Graphic Expression and a Ph.D. in City, Territory, and Sustainability from the University of Guadalajara. Her research has explored topics such as art in public spaces, art and architecture, and the history of design.
She currently serves as Academic Secretary and teaches in the Department of Theories, Histories, and Architectural Projects at the University Center of Art, Architecture, and Design that complements her professional practice.
In 2021, she published El arte y la ciudad: posibilidades del arte en el espacio público (Art and the City: Possibilities of Art in Public Spaces), and in 2018, she contributed a chapter titled Analysis of Surrealist Architecture through the Perception of Las Pozas, Xilitla in Percepción de espacios arquitectónicos y urbanos (Perception of Architectural and Urban Spaces). Lastly, she has been a Level I member of the National System of Researchers since 2022.
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