Ed.D. Ed Tech Alum Speaking ON LANGUAGE, RACE, AND INTERSECTIONALITY

Dr. Ericka Collado (Ed.D., Cohort 2), the 2022 Dwight Englewood Leggett/Umpleby Speaker. Dr. Collado’s talk on Scholarship, Race, and Intersectionality was informative, inspiring, and fun.

Dr. Collado wove history, her personal story, and Puerto Rican Bomba drumming into an unforgettable presentation. Anchored in the premise coined by educator and writer Dr. Parker Palmer “we teach who we are,” and Intersectionality Theory, Dr. Collado spoke about how her privileged and marginalized identities influence her classroom teaching. Whether teaching Spanish or Robotics, Dr. Collado’s family history, upbringing in Puerto Rico, academic path, reiki healing training, and the practice of Bomba, an Afro-diasporic musical genre, surface in the form of lessons designed to support the emotional intelligence development of students, rich cultural studies based on history, and the application of critical thinking to understand the challenges of the world we live.

Dr. Collado teaches Spanish in the Dwight Englewood Upper School. The Leggett/Umpleby Speaker Award is given annually to showcase the scholarship of a Dwight Englewood faculty member.

This year Dr. Collado was also appointed to the Leadership Council of The National Museum of Language. The mission of the NML is to honor and support “language acquisition, utilization, and preservation, along with linguist and cultural diversity.” Congratulations Ericka! (Ericka Collado pictured above.)