Alaiyo Foster will defend her doctoral dissertation titled “Dreaming Bititi’s Harvest®: An Exploratory Study of Afrocentric Rites of Passage as a Means of Mitigating HIV Transmission Among Adolescent Metropolitan African-American Females”
Xóchitl Monteen Fuhriman-Ebert will defend her doctoral dissertation titled “Overlooked and Uninformed: Discovering What Parents of Long-Term ELL Students Perceive and Understand of Their Child’s Education”
Karen Perez-Da Silva will defend her doctoral dissertation titled “Educational Guerreras - A Study of a Madre-Centered Participatory Action Research for Educational System Praxis”
Catherine Walter will defend her doctoral dissertation titled “Journey towards Equity: How Interactions between Stakeholders, Policy, and Environment Impact Implementation during the First Year of a Dual Language Program”
Debi Briggs-Crispin will defend her doctoral dissertation titled “Reveal, Empower, and Inform: A Co-Inquiry Study of Student Engagement Conducted by Middle School Students and their Principal”
Charlene Williams will defend her dissertation titled “From Disrespectful Interactions to Unprecedented Success: How African American Male Students in an ‘Urban’ High School Describe High Expectations”
Samuel May-Varas will defend his doctoral dissertation titled “Identifying the Factors that Influenced Adult Students in Persisting to Earn the GED Credential”
Sarah Crane-Simpson will defend her doctoral dissertation titled “Foucault, Disability Studies, and Mental Health Diagnoses in Students: An Analysis of Discourse, Power, and the Social Construction of Disability”