Cati de los Ríos

Cati de los Ríos is an associate professor of Language, Literacy and Culture at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. She taught Spanish, English language development (ELD), and Ethnic Studies in Massachusetts and California public schools. Her scholarship draws from ethnographic and participatory methodologies to 1) explore the nexus of ethnic studies curricula, writing, and civic learning; and 2) examine how racially minoritized bi/multilingual youth build off of intergenerational cultural legacies while innovating new forms of creative expression and political engagement.  de los Rios’s research has been recognized by The National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation (Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships), National Academies of Science/Ford Foundation (Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowships), and National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Cultivating New Voices Fellowship. She is also the recipient of several awards including NCTE’s Promising Researcher Award, Alan C. Purvis Award, Janet Emig Award, and a UC Berkeley Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship. Some of her recent papers can be found in Applied Linguistics, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, Reading Research Quarterly, and The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.