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Drawing from a year-long ethnographic study with 75 newcomer youth attending a comprehensive high school in South Los Angeles, Professor Sophia Ángeles will discuss how educators can better attend and prepare youth to attain their aspirations. Utilizing transborder frameworks (Dryness & Sepúlveda, 2020), Professor Ángeles will bring attention to how newcomer youth adjust their postsecondary goals given their recent migration to the United States and their role as members of transnational families. In her conclusion, Prof. Ángeles will invite educators to reimagine school practices so that newcomer youth have greater opportunities to be college and career ready.
Speaker:
Sophia L. Ángeles
Assistant Professor of Education
College of Education, Penn State University
Dr. Ángeles is an Assistant Professor of Multilingual Education for the College of Education at Penn State University. She earned her Ph.D. from the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Stemming from her experiences as a former educator working in multilingual and immigrant communities, Dr. Ángeles’ interrogates how and why language programs are designed in ways that translate into differential access to college and career readiness opportunities for high school newcomer youth. Her scholarship also accounts for how newcomer youth’s educational trajectories are shaped by immigration policies and their identities as minoritized youth.