Sofía E. Chaparro, PhD (she/her)

Sofía Chaparro is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where she teaches in the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education program at the School of Education and Human Development. Her research investigates how race and class influence ideologies of language development and bilingualism, as well as the rise of two-way immersion bilingual programs in urban contexts. Her work was been funded by the Spencer Fellowship Foundation/National Academy of Education and the Ford Fellowship Foundation. She obtained her PhD in Educational Linguistics from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. A former bilingual elementary teacher, she is originally from the border between the United States and Mexico, from the west Texas town of El Paso.