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Karen Monkman

Vice-President Comparative and International Education Society. Professor Emerita. Doctoral Program, Teacher Education; Emeritus Faculty, DePaul University, EE. UU.

Karen Monkman’s research interests broadly relate to equity, lived experience and education policy. She is an internationally recognized scholar on gender and globalization, and migration, as they relate to education. Recent research projects focus on the discursive framing of gender in education policy globally, girls’ multilingual education policy and practice in Cambodia, student experience in an after school program in an under-resourced public school in the US, and globalization and educational policy and practice. She is active in the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). She has taught English-as-a-Second/Foreign language (ESL/EFL) in the US, West Africa and Latin America. She has been a visiting scholar at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She holds a PhD from University of Southern California (USC) in International and Intercultural Education, and two MA degrees, one in Sociology from USC, and another in Comparative and International Education from University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB).
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Pablo Cevallos Estarellas

Regional Director of the Office for Latin America of the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIPE) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Pablo Cevallos Estarellas is the Regional Director of the Office for Latin America of the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIPE) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a position he has held since October 2016. He has a PhD in Pedagogy and a Master's Degree in Education and Critical Thinking from Montclair State University, of New Jersey, United States, where he studied thanks to a Fulbright-Laspau scholarship. His areas of research and publications are related to the study of educational reforms in Latin America, with the initial training of teachers, with the philosophy of education, with education for citizenship, as well as with the teaching of academic writing, philosophy and critical thinking. He has been a professor in undergraduate and postgraduate programs at the San Francisco University of Quito, Ecuador, at the University of Barcelona, Spain, at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador, at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA, at Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, USA. and at the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil, Ecuador. He has worked as an international consultant in educational projects, and has been invited to participate as a speaker in several Latin American countries. Between 2007 and 2010 he was part of the management team of the Ministry of Education of Ecuador, and from 2010 to 2013 he served as Vice Minister of Education of that country.

Regina Cortina

Past President Comparative and International Education Society. Professor of Education, Teachers College Columbia University, EE. UU.

Regina Cortina is an education professor in the Department of International and Cross-Cultural Studies at Teachers College at Columbia University. His new book is Civil society organizations in Latin American education: case studies and perspectives on promotion (2018), with Constanza Lafuente. This book focuses on the strategic framework and accountability practices of civil society organizations that promote the right to education in Latin America. Professor Cortina recently published the Policy on Indigenous Education, Equity and Intercultural Understanding in Latin America (2017), a comparative study of policies designed to increase the educational opportunities of indigenous students, protect their rights to an education that includes their cultures and languages, and improve their educational outcomes The Education of Indigenous Citizens in Latin America (2014), their previous book, examines unprecedented changes in education in Latin America that resulted from the support of the rights of indigenous peoples through the development of education Intercultural and bilingual. Professor Cortina's other areas of specialization are gender and education, teacher education and employment, public policies and education, and the schooling of Latinos in the United States. Among other important publications are Women and education: Global perspectives on the feminization of a profession (Palgrave, 2006), Immigrants and schooling: Mexicans in New York (Center for studies on migration, 2003) and Distant alliances: promotion of education for girls and women in Latin America (Routledge, 2000). She has a doctorate in Education, a master's degree in International and Comparative Education, and a master's degree in Political Science, all from Stanford University, and a bachelor's degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Professor Cortina is former president of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) (2019-2020).

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