Julia Lopez-Robertson

Doctora Julia López-Robertson is a Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of South Carolina. She earned her B.S. from Northeastern University (Boston, MA) in elementary education, and both her M.A. in Bilingual/Multicultural Education and her Ph.D. in Language, Reading, and Culture from the University of Arizona. A former early childhood bilingual classroom teacher, for seventeen years in Boston, MA and Tucson, AZ, doctora López-Robertson is committed to working with children, families, teachers, and preservice teachers in public schools, universities, and communities for the purpose of advancing understandings about emerging bilingual/multilingual students and their families and on the transformation of teacher education to support equitable teaching for all children, particularly English Learners.