2024 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Ofelia García
Ofelia García is Professor Emerita in the Ph.D. programs in Urban Education and Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. García has published widely in the areas of bilingualism/multilingualism and bilingual education, language education, language policy, and sociology of language. The American Educational Research Association has awarded her two Lifetime Research Achievement Awards ––Distinguished Contributions to Social Contexts in Education (2019) and Bilingual Education (2017), as well as Second Language Acquisition Leadership through Research Award (2019). Among her other honors are the 2017 Charles Ferguson Award in Applied Linguistics and the 2022 ALD (Association of Language Departments) Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession from the Modern Language Association. She has been elected to membership in The Academy of Arts and Sciences (2023) and National Academy of Education (2018). For more, visit www.ofeliagarcia.org.
