Pedro Pedraza, Ph.D. (Speaking: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 Time: 3:50 - 4:50)

Hunter College
Pedro Pedraza is on the board of the Youth Action Program and The East Harlem Tutorial Program and the advisory board to the After School Corporation and New Visions. He has conceptualized, organized and implemented interdisciplinary studies of the bilingual nature of the Puerto Rican community. One of his latest publications is “The Spirit of Transformation: An Education Reform Movement In a New York City Latino/a Community” in Sonia Nieto’s book Puerto Rican Students in U.S. Schools. Pedraza is currently working with El Puente a CBO in Brooklyn developing participatory research projects at the Academy for Peace and Justice, supported by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. In addition, Dr. Pedraza has received a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation to form a national Latino/a education research agenda bringing together the different stakeholders e.g. academics, teacher trainers, practitioners, community advocates, funders and governmental agency representatives.

Enrique Murillo, Ph.D.

California State Univeristy at San Bernadino
Murillo is a tenured faculty member for the Educational Research Methods and Foundations in Education position at California State University San Bernardino. He is a first generation Chicano, born and raised in the greater East side of Los Angeles (Huntington Park), and a native bilingual speaker in Spanish/English.