A Project of the South Asia National Outreach Consortium
Biography Ellen Bunn has been the K-8 librarian for 15 years at EAGLE School of Madison, where she previously served as a teacher of science and science and literature for the preceding five years. She has a passion for reading and sharing multicultural and global fiction and nonfiction for children and young adults. Ellen served …
Saba Khan Vlach is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at The University of Iowa. She is a Pakistani-American, Muslim woman. Saba taught elementary school for 17 years in Arlington, Texas. She earned her Master’s at Texas Woman’s University in Reading Education and her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction at The University of Texas at Austin. Saba’s research interests include teachers’ enactment of critical pedagogies, (diverse) children’s literature, literature discussions, young children’s reader responses, and inservice teacher education. Saba’s scholarship and practice draws on the conceptual frameworks of Freire’s theory of critical literacy, Kumashiro’s theory of anti-oppressive education, and Brown’s theory of humanizing critical sociocultural knowledge. Saba is thrilled to be on the SABA Committee!
Biography Ritu Radhakrishnan, PhD, is the Department Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the State University of New York at Oswego. She is the coordinator of the Adolescence Social Studies education program and teaches courses in Literacy, Curriculum Studies, Culturally Relevant Teaching, Schools, Pedagogy, and Social Justice, and Elementary …
Biography Meg Reynolds, an English teacher at Vel Phillips Memorial high school, has been in education for 3 years now. While pursuing their M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction through UW Madison, they quickly realized that literacy in the United States is an equity issue that could be explored and solved through cultivating curiosity. Meg believes …
Biography I am Samitha Senanayake. I teach part time in the English Department at Madison College. I am from Sri Lanka, and I earned my BA in English language and literature at the University of Peradeniya. I recently completed my dissertation project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which focused on the ways that 20th Century Sri …
Eyal Suseela is the Head of Public Services at the South Lansing branch of the Capital Area District Libraries. Prior to that, she was a public services librarian and a youth outreach librarian at CADL. She has a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Michigan, and a double Master’s in Library Science and Information Science from Indiana University Bloomington.
Biography Julie Wakefield taught Spanish and Geography at McQueen High School in Reno, NV for 25 years. She introduced an Honors 9th grade level Geography and the AP Human Geography to the school. Additionally over the years, she taught World History, American Government, Freshman Seminar and Reading for Pleasure. Julie is a Nevada Geographic Alliance …
