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María Cioè-Peña is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. Her work focuses on bilingual/biliterate education, disability studies, and equity in education policy, particularly for minoritized children. She holds a PhD and has served as a Community-Engaged Teaching Fellow at Montclair State University before joining Penn GSE. Her research investigates the intersectional experiences of bilingual Latinx children with disabilities and their families, emphasizing inclusive education and parental advocacy.
Education: Doctoral training in education and linguistics (details not specified in text). Former bilingual special education teacher.
Research Interests: Bilingualism, disability inclusion, parent-school partnerships, raciolinguistics, and the political economy of education. Current projects include studies on remote schooling impacts during the pandemic, gentrification of bilingual education in NYC, and advocacy for Latinx mothers of emergent bilinguals with disabilities.
Awards: Recipient of NABE’s Outstanding Dissertation Award (2019), AERA Bilingual Education SIG Early Career Award (2022), and the Inaugural Outstanding Publication Award from CEC’s Division for Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners (2022).
Advising & Grants: Principal Investigator (PI) of studies such as 'From Mother to Teacher: Experiences of Spanish-Speaking Mothers During Remote Schooling' and co-PI on the 'Gentrification of Bilingual Education in NYC' project. Her work emphasizes community-engaged methodologies and policy advocacy.
Labs/Teams: Collaborates with institutions like CUNY on bilingual education research, focusing on equity, language access, and systemic barriers faced by marginalized communities.
