SIG Elected Officers

2024-2025 Officers

SIG Chair

Sandra Candel

sandra.candel@unlv.edu

Sandra Candel obtained her doctoral degree in Curriculum and Instruction, with an emphasis in Cultural Studies, International Education, and Multicultural Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research focuses on the educational trajectories of U.S.-born transnational students who were forced to attend schools in Mexico due to parental deportation. She is also interested in the importance of deported mothers’ advocacy to improve their children’s academic opportunities. Particularly, Dr. Candel is committed to the academic success of transnational students through the development of transnational-sensitive teaching practices.

Dr. Candel holds a Master’s degree in International Education with an emphasis in Peace Education from Drexel University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Business from California State University, Fullerton.

SIG Program Chair

Raul Olmo Fregoso Bailon

rfregosobailon@unr.edu

Raul Olmo Fregoso Bailón is Assistant Professor of Equity and Diversity in Education in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, United States. He is author of ¿Qué tan diferente es México de la Venezuela de Chávez? Un acercamiento a través de los programas de desayunos escolares (Universidad de Guadalajara).

He is member of the International Advisory Committee of the UNESCO Chair in Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education. His scholarship has either been published or is forthcoming in edited collections in Spanish and English, including Handbook of Theory and Research in Cultural Studies and Education (Springer), Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education (Brill) and journals such asEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies, Curriculum Perspectives, Bilingual Research Journal, Revista Historia de la Educación Latinoamericana, Policy Futures in Education, Contextualizaciones Latinoamericanas, Revista Tempos e Espaços em Educação, among other forums.

Secretary

LuzKarime Calle Diaz

Luzkarime lives and works in Colombia. She is a language teacher educator and research advisor. She has worked in a variety of local and national educational projects to contribute to the improvement of bilingual education in her country. She was the coordinator of the design of the National Suggested Curriculum for English learning, with a focus on peacebuilding and sustainability.
Her current research situates at the intersection of Discourse Studies and Peace Education, with a special interest in critical and positive discourse analysis, critical literacies, and children’s literature for peacebuilding. She has published relevant chapters and articles about the role of language in peacebuilding processes, positive discourse analysis in language learning and teacher education, representation and peacebuilding in children’s literature, literacies and coloniality resistance in Latin America, among others.
She also belongs to the Womyn Peace Collective, based in St. Louis, with whom she has co-written and published the bilingual children’s book “Un Día de las Madres por la Paz – A Mothers Day for Peace: a herstory”.

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LuzKarime Calle Diaz

Luzkarime lives and works in Colombia. She is a language teacher educator and research advisor. She has worked in a variety of local and national educational projects to contribute to the improvement of bilingual education in her country. She was the coordinator of the design of the National Suggested Curriculum for English learning, with a focus on peacebuilding and sustainability.
Her current research situates at the intersection of Discourse Studies and Peace Education, with a special interest in critical and positive discourse analysis, critical literacies, and children’s literature for peacebuilding. She has published relevant chapters and articles about the role of language in peacebuilding processes, positive discourse analysis in language learning and teacher education, representation and peacebuilding in children’s literature, literacies and coloniality resistance in Latin America, among others.
She also belongs to the Womyn Peace Collective, based in St. Louis, with whom she has co-written and published the bilingual children’s book “Un Día de las Madres por la Paz – A Mothers Day for Peace: a herstory”.

Tina Ahmadi

Tina is a PhD student at Ball State University in Indiana, studying educational psychology. She currently researches restorative practices in classroom settings and received a Cohen Peace Grant to aid this work. Prior to starting her academic career, she taught science at the K-12 level and is passionate about any and all educational research that can improve student learning both in academic subjects as well as personal growth in areas that are not always measured by tests (such as conflict resolution). During her time as a classroom teacher, she served on the school equity team for multiple years and facilitated conversations amongst staff members. Tina holds a dual Masters from Ball State University in Education and Biology and B.S. in Biology and Society from Cornell University. She looks forward to learning about the amazing work of peace education scholars as she works with Luzkarime to highlight and share their work.

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