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anasolano
Boston, MA
Ana is a third year PhD student in the Division of Education Studies at Emory University, where she holds an Arts and Sciences Fellowship. Ana has taught English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in elementary, high school, and college settings in Costa Rica, and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in elementary school in the United States. She was a member of the Visiting International Faculty program in Atlanta, Georgia, where she taught newcomer culturally and linguistically diverse elementary students from around the world. In 2006 Ana was awarded the VIF Georgia Cultural Educator of the Year. Ana is also one of the founders of the project Think-Share-Act (TSA) at Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica. TSA encouraged teachers and learners of EFL to incorporate social justice and critical pedagogy in their classrooms.
Ana has presented at several regional and international conferences, and her work has been published in Costa Rica and Brazil. She is passionate about teaching and learning, educational leadership, and advocacy for ethnocultural minorities and immigrant students. Her research interests reside somewhere along the intersections of multicultural and citizenship education, language learning, and Latin American history.
