ABSTRACT
Misha is an Arab-descent university professor of multicultural and multilingual education in Southern California working toward social justice and equity for students of color in high-school settings. Her experience and current ethnographic research practices have been focused on issues concerning immigrant Latina/o students from Mexico. Misha’s current research findings have identified factors contributing to boundaries that separate Latina/o students from their White peers. In addition, her professional work focuses on understanding the influence of school culture on student engagement for high-school students of color in U.S. schools. In the teacher-credential and graduate courses she teaches, Misha works with teacher-credential candidates who will teach in high-school settings as well as graduate students who are teachers in grades K–12. She is known for her facilitation and support of single-subject teachers creating social justice action plans for their classrooms, schools, and districts. Her research agenda contributes greatly to her current appointment as director of campus-wide diversity at a midsized liberal arts university. In this capacity she promotes a social justice and equity agenda benefiting university students in undergraduate and graduate programs as well as students of color in secondary schools.
