I am a Garinagu educator from Trujillo, Honduras who believes education should be accessible to everyone and that learning reflects the effort and engagement one brings to it. I work with Caribbean cultural arts, community organizing, and linguistically and culturally responsive early childhood education. I am guided by Antonia Darder’s decolonizing methodologies, and Geneva Gay’s culturally responsive teaching. I examine processes of ethnic identity, bicultural, cross-cultural, and tri-literacy development of Children of Color. I am currently working alongside other scholars on efforts to restore and support Taino, Kromanti, Garifuna, and Jamaican Creole languages.
Education
M.A., Education, Goddard College, 2022; B.A., Education, Escuela Normal Mixta, Matilde Cordova, 1990
Teaching Style
I team teach courses using a linguistically and culturally responsive approach. My teaching centers on collaboration, recognizing that educators and students grow together while creating classrooms grounded in diversity. In our classroom, we teach and learn in both Spanish and English and we celebrate the many languages and cultures of our learning community. We also support students in strengthening and reviving their Indigenous languages. Examples of these languages include Mixteco, Taino, Garifuna, and Jamaican Creole.