Dalila Mendez

Affiliation

NYC DOE/CUNY

Track

Biography

Dalila Mendez is a bilingual educator committed to liberatory and multilingual education. She is a second year Assistant Principal, where the community leads the basis of her leadership to collaborate, empower, and inspire. Over the past decade, she taught in elementary Spanish bilingual classrooms, computer science and led as an Equity and Restorative Justice Coordinator in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a B.A. in Bilingual Elementary Education from CUNY, Brooklyn College, where she is also an adjunct, an M.A. in International Education Development via Teachers College, Columbia University and an M.S.Ed. in Educational Leadership through The College of St. Rose. She believes in working, learning and teaching in an environment where we believe that diversity is our strength, equity and justice are our mission, inclusion is our superpower, and liberation is our goal. Her research interests are: liberatory anti-racist pedagogy, bilingual/multilingual education, translanguaging, raciolinguistics, bilingual/multicultural ed. policy-language rights and the connection between multilingualism and computer science/digital literacy. She is looking forward to being in community with all of you!