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María Cioè-Peña
María Cioè-Peña earned her PhD in Urban Education from The Graduate Center - City University of New York, where she was also an Advance Research Collaborative and Presidential MAGNET Fellow.
As a neurodiverse, bilingual/biliterate researcher and educator, María examines the intersections of disability, language, school-parent partnerships, and educational policy. Taking a sociolinguistic approach and stance, she pushes and reimagines the boundaries of inclusive spaces for minoritized children. Stemming from her experiences as a bilingual special education teacher, María’s research focuses on bilingual children with dis/abilities, their families, and their ability to access multilingual and inclusive learning spaces within public schools. Her interests are deeply rooted in political economy, Critical Dis/ability Raciolinguistic (CDR) perspectives and ideologies within schools, families, and communities. María has received multiple awards in recognition of her scholarship and writing which has been featured in academic journals like Urban Review; Teacher’s College Record; International Journal of Inclusive Education; and Bilingual Research Journal, to name a few, and contributed to multiple edited volumes. She is also the author of (M)othering Labeled Children: Bilingualism and Disability in the Lives of Latinx Mothers. María received AERA's Bilingual Education Research SIG's Early Career Award in 2022 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.
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