LatCrit and Education Volume 1

Biographical notes

Juan A. Ríos Vega (Volume editor) Yolanda Medina (Volume editor)

Juan A. Ríos Vega is an Associate Professor in the Education Department at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. He earned his doctorate in Philosophy in Educational Studies, Cultural Studies Concentration from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2014), Women’s and Gender Studies Certificate (2014). His research focuses on multilingual learners, critical race theory, queers of color epistemologies, and social justice education. In 2020, Dr. Ríos published High School Latinx Counternarratives: Experiences in School and Post-graduation. This book was selected as one of the 2021 Critics Choice Awards Books by the American Educational Studies Association (AESA). Yolanda (Jolie) Medina is Professor and Chair of the Teacher Education Department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York where she teaches Social Foundations of Education. She is the author of Critical Aesthetic Pedagogy: Toward a Theory of Self and Social Empowerment (2012), the co-author of Latinos/as on the East Coast: A Critical Reader (2015), the Social Foundations Reader Volumes I and II (2016 and 2024) and The Encyclopedia of Critical Understandings of Latinx and Global Education (2022). She has numerous journal articles and book chapters on Critical Race Theory, LatCrit and Education, and Arts and Education. In addition, she is the editor of the Critical Studies of Latinx in the Americas book series.