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Patricia Buenrostro is an Assistant Professor of Education at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, IL. Her work focuses on justice-oriented curriculum design, student-teacher relationality, and fostering student in(ter)dependence. She previously completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University with Project SIGMa, a teacher coaching initiative for urban secondary mathematics educators. She is a member of the Sustainable Community Schools Task Force, collaborating with Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union to advance culturally-relevant pedagogy and restorative justice practices.
Patricia holds a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago (2016) in Curriculum Studies. Her dissertation, Humanizing Mathematics: Students’ Perspectives on Learning Math for Social Justice, explored how students use mathematics as a tool to analyze socio-political issues affecting their communities. Prior to academia, she spent 15 years as a high school mathematics teacher and coach in Chicago’s working-class, Latinx, and African-American communities.
Her research emphasizes creating counter-cultural educational spaces that affirm students’ academic, cultural, and social identities. She actively engages with social justice and anti-racism initiatives, as reflected in her involvement with the Education Studies Minor and the Paedagogia Academic Journal at Lake Forest College.
