Dr. Carla España is a New York-based educator from Chile. Dr. España is an Assistant Professor of Puerto Rican and Latinx Studies at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and adjunct faculty at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the co-author of En comunidad: Lecciones para centrar las voces y experiencias de estudiantes bilingües latines (Heinemann), En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students (Heinemann), Teaching Language and Building Community with Latine Children’s Literature in Spanish K-6 (Brookes), The Translanguaging Collections: Affirming Bilingual and Multilingual Learners Handbook (Penguin Random House), and co-founder of the En Comunidad Collective with Dr. Luz Yadira Herrera. She is also the author of Narrative Writing with Latinx Teens: Testimonios, Texts, and Teaching (Stenhouse/Routledge).
Dr. España has a B.S. in Communication Studies from New York University, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, an M.S. in Childhood Education with a Bilingual Extension from Hunter College, CUNY, and a Ph.D. in Urban Education from the Graduate Center, CUNY. Dr. España’s teaching journey began with bilingual sixth graders in Harlem, New York. Her love of stories and teaching comes from her roots in Chile and has been nurtured by hundreds of teachers and students across schools in New York City and beyond.
