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Join us for a Curriculum Conversation with Amanda Morales, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

About the Speaker

Amanda R. Morales, Ph.D., is an associate professor of education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She came to higher education from informal and community-based science education and has worked in teacher preparation for over 20 years. Her research addresses issues of equity and access for minoritized students from preschool to graduate school. More specifically, her current work focuses on teacher diversification pathways, school & university partnerships, teacher preparation for working with (im)migrant, multilingual, and minoritized students, Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), and critical mentoring for teachers of Color. She has won national recognitions and research awards from the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, the American Education Research Association, and the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Association.Amanda is the author of over 30 peer-reviewed publications and has written for, led, and collaborated on numerous successful federal, state, and regional grant projects (totaling over $8.5 million dollars).Amanda teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses on multicultural education, intercultural communication, and critical & anti-colonial theories in education.