Iliana Reyes

Affiliation

University of Arizona

Track

Biography

Iliana Reyes, Ph.D. UC Berkeley (2001), is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Community and International Partnerships at the College of Education, University of Arizona (UA). She is the Director of the UA Borderlands Education Center (BEC), focusing her research in a range of educational issues on bilingualism, multilingualism, early childhood education, and Immigration and Borderlands Pedagogies impacting early childhood educators, families and their young children. She has conducted research in Central México on multilingual education and community biliteracy issues in an indigenous, Náhuatl-Spanish, immigrant community with families, children and teachers as collaborators to revitalize the indigenous language.