Ofelia García

Ofelia García is a Professor Emerita in the Ph.D. programs in Urban Education and Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Stories in books have shaped her identity as a Latina born in Cuba. They have enabled her to enter her worlds as well as those where others dwell, dream, sing, and walk along other paths. The work of ARC is important to her because it centers books and reading as most important in educating children to live and love, to understand and question, to dream and resist, and to re-exist. She's been fortunate that the American Educational Research Association has awarded her three Lifetime Research Achievement Awards––Distinguished Contributions to Social Contexts in Education (2019), Bilingual Education (2017), and Second Language Acquisition Leadership through Research (2019). She is also a member of the US National Academy of Education.