Suhr

Professor Suhr is a faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), recognized for her work in community-engaged learning and sociolinguistic justice. She specializes in bilingual education, neuroscience accessibility, and first-generation student support. Her research bridges cognitive science, language pedagogy, and social justice, with a focus on marginalized communities.

She holds the 2022 UCLA URW Faculty Mentor Award for her mentorship in community-engaged research projects. Her work emphasizes culturally relevant education practices and equitable access to scientific knowledge.

Key research areas include: Spanish language acquisition through service-learning, neuroscience communication in multilingual contexts, and student retention strategies for first-generation learners. She explores how language shapes emotive stereotypes and cognitive frameworks through sociocultural perspectives.

Publications span from 2016 to 2025, focusing on themes like pandemic response in language education, horizontal learning models, and cognitive aspects of bilingualism.