Ofelia García is 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. She started her academic career as Assistant Professor in the School of Education at City College of New York in 1981. García has published widely in the areas of bilingualism/multilingualism and bilingual education, language education, language policy, and sociology of language. 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 a member of the U.S. National Academy of Education. For more, visit www.ofeliagarcia.org.
