Magaly Lavadenz

Affiliation

Center for Equity for English Learners, School of Education

Track

Biography

Dr. Magaly Lavadenz is currently the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair in Ethics and Moral Leadership, Director of Bilingual/Bicultural Education at Loyola Marymount University. She is also the Founding Executive Director of LMU’s Center for Equity for English Learners. Dr. Lavadenz has held leadership positions in numerous associations. She is a past president of the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE), the California Council on Teacher Education, Californians Together and founding President of the California Association for Bilingual Teacher Education. Her publications include numerous articles and chapters in education journals, four books, including Questioning our practices: Bilingual Teacher -Researchers and Transformative Inquiry. Born in Cuba, she is a former bilingual classroom teacher and ESL Teacher Specialist at the K-12 levels. Her research interests include recruitment and retention of Latino and bilingual teachers, the experiences of the Central American immigrant community, public policy affecting language use and education for Latinos, and metacognitive processing in biliteracy. Dr. Lavadenz completed her B.S. (magna cum laude) in Elementary Education from Oakland University in Michigan, an M.A. in Educational Psychology and Counseling from California State University, Northridge and a Ph.D. in Education, specializing in Language, Literacy and Learning from the University of Southern California.