Marcela Alvarez

Dept. of Education

Bio

Marcela Alvarez is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. Marcela's research interests are heritage language speakers (HLS), linguistic identities and ideologies, and bilingual education. Marcela is especially interested in Spanish HLS who become bilingual classroom educators. Marcela is a graduate teaching fellow for the SKILLS program, under the supervision of her advisor Dr. Jin Sook Lee. Through SKILLS she collaborates closely with local high school students and their teachers to explore their understanding of language, and how it shapes their identity and experiences.