Contributing Authors
Karen Nemeth, Ed.M., Senior Training/Technical Assistance Specialist for DLLs
Karen Nemeth, Ed.M. is an author, speaker, and consultant from eastern Pennsylvania. She specializes in improving early childhood education for children who are dual language learners. Currently, she works for Zero to Three as the Senior Training/Technical Assistance Specialist for DLLs in the National Center for Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning. She is the co-chair of the Early Childhood Special Interest Group for the National Association for Bilingual Education. She is also a steering board member of the TESOL Elementary Education Interest Section and co-facilitator of the NAEYC Early Childhood Consultants and Authors Interest Forum.
Karen Nemeth is the expert that appears in many of the lecture/video presentations for this course.
Dr. Soojin Oh Park, Assistant Professor in Early Childhood and Family Studies, University of Washington College of Education
Dr. Soojin Oh Park is an assistant professor in Early Childhood and Family Studies at the University of Washington (UW) College of Education. She is a core faculty member of the Learning Sciences and Human Development and the Education, Equity, and Society programs, and an affiliate faculty of the West Coast Poverty Center and Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. Dr. Park studies early childhood development, parenting, immigration, and culture, In particular, her work is focused on improving the quality of early learning across contexts by centering the voices and expertise of historically underserved, non-dominant families and communities and advancing policy and practice that address racial and socioeconomic inequities in the first years of life.
Dr. Park is the expert that appears in many of the lecture/video presentations for this course.
Dr. Cricket Limlingan, Research Scientist, University of Washington, Assistant Professor in Early Childhood and Family Studies, University of Washington College of Education
Dr. Maria Cristina (Cricket) Limlingan is a Research Scientist at Cultivate Learning at the University of Washington. She currently leads efforts of the Washington Research-Practice Partnership for the Partnerships for Pre-K Improvement project, a multi-year, cross-sectoral study focusing on improving the quality of state-funded pre-k programs. Cricket has over twelve years of applied experience in early childhood education research related to community partnerships, supporting the implementation of the culturally and linguistically responsive teaching and family engagement practices and improving dual language learners’ (DLLs) school readiness skills. Her research interests focus on improving the quality of educational experiences for linguistically and ethnically diverse young children in the United States and in low- and middle-income countries. She is particularly interested in the environmental and cultural influences on immigrant children’s experiences and interventions that may improve their school readiness outcomes.
Dr. Limlingan is the expert that appears in many of the lecture/video presentations for this course.
Cinthia I. Palomino, Ed.S., Ph.D. Candidate, Learning Sciences & Human Development
Cinthia Palomino completed her BA degree in Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, her Educational Specialist degree in School Psychology at the University of Washington, and she is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Learning Sciences and Human Development program. Her research interests include early childhood interventions that promote the well-being and school readiness of young children, particularly from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Currently, as part of her dissertation work, she is working on the cultural adaptation and implementation of a pilot parenting program delivered for Latino immigrant parents of preschool-aged children.
Kayla Chui, Doctoral student at University of Washington
Kayla Chui (she/her/hers) is a second-generation Asian American immigrant who grew up on Ramaytush Ohlone lands (aka San Francisco). She is currently a student at the University of Washington in the Multicultural Education PhD program. She’s interested in cross-racial solidarity building as a movement towards collective liberation. More specifically, she’s thinking about self-reflexivity in Asian American communities in terms of disrupting anti-Blackness and settler colonialism. One of Kayla’s academic and personal guiding principles is a quote by Fannie Lou Hamer: “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” Her future plans include lecturing in her hometown and developing workshops in the community learning spaces she’s a part of.
