Ofelia Garcia

The City University of New York

Professor Emerita

Ofelia García is Professor Emerita in the Ph.D. programs in Urban Education and Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published widely in the areas of multilingualism and translanguaging, the education of bilingual students, sociolinguistics, and language education policy and practice,. García has received Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Awards from the American Education Research Asssociation (AERA) (Social Contexts in Education, 2019, and Bilingual Education, 2017); from the Modern Language Association (MLA), 2022; and from The Literacy Research Association (LRA), 2024. In 2023 she was elected to membership in The Academy of Arts and Sciences (2023) and in 2018 in the National Academy of Education (2018). Her website: www.ofeliagarcia.org.