Patricia Gandara

Patricia Gándara, Ph.D., is Research Professor and Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at UCLA. She is also Director of Education for the University of California-Mexico Initiative. Gándara is an elected fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the National Academy of Education. In 2011 she was appointed to President Obama’s Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, and in 2015 received the Distinguished Career Award from the Scholars of Color Committee of the American Educational Research Association. Her most recent books are The Latino Education Crisis (2009); Forbidden Language: English Learners and Restrictive Language Policies (2010), and The Bilingual Advantage: Language, Literacy, and the U.S. Labor Market (2014). She is currently preparing a manuscript on the Impact of Immigration Enforcement Policies on Teaching and Learning in the Nation’s Schools.