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1Ana C. López, PhDCurriculum Vita EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDMay 2020: PhD Major Field of Study: Special Education. Focus on Bilingual andMulticultural Special Education. Minor in Family and Consumer Sciences. New Mexico StateUniversity Las Cruces, NMMay 2016: M.A. Major Field of Study: Special Education, New Mexico State University,Las Cruces, NM.January 2012: B.A. Major Field of Study: Education, Universidad Autónoma de CiudadJuárez. Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. CURRENT POSITIONAugust 2020-current: Assistant Professor, Departments of TESOL and SpecialEducation at the Graduate School of Education (GSOE) Lesley University,Cambridge, MA. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCESummer2020: Adjunct Professor, Department of Special Education, New MexicoState University, Las Cruces, NM.June 2016-2020: Graduate and Teaching Assistant, Department of Special Education,New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.June 2016-2020: Graduate and Teaching Assistant, Bilingual/Multicultural SpecialEducation Program, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.Jan 2015-May 2016: Graduate Assistant, Special Education Department, New MexicoState University, Las Cruces NM.August-Dec 2014Note-taker, Student Accessibility Department, Dona Ana CommunityCollege, Las Cruces NMAugust-Dec 2013English Teacher, General Education, Elementary Education 5 th grade,Colegio Inglés Elementary, Ciudad Juárez Chihuahua, MexicoAugust 2012-2013Montessori English Teacher, General Education, ElementaryEducation 1 st to 3rd grade, Colegio Casa Montessori, Ciudad Juarez

2Chihuahua, MexicoAugust 2011-2012Student Teacher, (practicum) Special Education center for individualswith visual impairments, CIDEVIS A.C., Villa Integra. Ciudad JuárezChihuahua, Mexico.August-Dec 2011Teacher, General Education - Elementary education, 5th grade, VicenteGuerrero Elementary, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico (Secretaría deEducación Pública (SEP): Public Education Bureau).January-May 2012Administrative Assistant, College of Education Department,Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Juárez Chihuahua.September 2010-2011 Administrative assistant, Educational Innovation Department,Ciudad Juárez Chihuahua, Mexico. RESEARCH:López, A., Casillas, C., Flores Carmona, J. (2022). Femtoring trenza: Employing aplática testimonio approach to co-create knowledge and survive academia. Rio BravoSpecial Issue: Inter/weaving, Inter/lacing Conscientização & Resistance: DecolonizingPractices, Intersectionality & Aesthetics. (Journal article/proposal accepted)López, A. (2021). Aprendizaje colectivo en tiempos de la pandemia: Employing testimoniopedagogies at a teacher preparation program. In Shinas, Ly & Ozden (Eds), Cases onPractical applications for remote, hybrid, and hyflex teaching. (Book chapter)López, A. (2021). Circo, maroma y teatro: Madres solteras en Ciudad Juárez cerrando lasbrechas educativas para sus hijos con discapacidad intelectual. Revista Campo Abierto,4(2), 259-270López, A. (2021) Atando cabos sueltos: From critical self-reflexivity to action and accountability. InMedina, Y. & Machado-Casas, M. (Eds.), Critical understandings of Latinx and globaleducation. Brill. (Book chapter)López, A. (2020) Cierres y transiciones: El impacto de la pandemia en los procesos académicos anivel universitario en la frontera sur de Estados Unidos. In S. Bolan Sorchini, A. G.Fernández Rodríguez, A. A. León López, M. Sepúlveda Acosta, M. M. Pacheco Cocom& Y. Pérez Chi (Eds.), Nueva Normalidad y Desarrollo Sostenible. (Bookchapter/Under review)López, A. (2020) Testimonios de maternidad: The lived experiences of single mothers who havechildren with disabilities (dissertation). New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM.López, A. (2020) Y tú qué hora traes? Unpacking the privileges of dominant groups in Mexico. BrillPublishers. (Book/Peer reviewed)

3López, Ana C., & Dormody, Tom (2018). Rethinking the H-2A Visa Program for GuestAgricultural Workers. Domenici Student Scholars research papers (Ms0517, Box 1,Folder 4). New Mexico State University Library, Archives and Special Collections. (notpeer reviewed) PRESENTATIONS:International – Peer-RefereedWoodley, X., Alswaida, N., Salas, L., López, A., Moursi, S., El Ashmawi, F. (2020) Crosscultural plática, reflections and voice: Women educators purposefully share about theirexperiences in academia. The Hawaii International Conference on Education, Hawaii.López, A., Salas, L., (2018) “Hands on! [Manos a la obra]” estrategias interactivas delectoescritura para enseñar el idioma inglés. Congreso Internacional de Femexval,Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.López, A. (2018). Maternidad y discapacidad en la frontera de México y Estados Unidos, unestudio de caso. First CONACYT Grant Holders Meeting in North America.Washington D.C.López, A. & Salas L. (2016). Guerreras fronterizas. The resiliency of a mother of a child withintellectual disabilities in the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border. CollaborativeEducational Programs for the Americas (CEPA) Leadership Conference. San Antonio, Tx.National – Peer ReviewedLópez, A. & Gammage-Patterson, S. (2022) Teaching at Historically White Institutions: TheFragmentation of the Cultural Self. Diversity Forum Workshop. University ofPittsburgh.Flores Carmona, J., Contreras, C., Ibarra Johnson, S., López, A., Wise, C. (2021) More ThanOur Positionality: The Arduous Work of Truly Being “Hispanic Serving” in theBorderlands and Beyond. Latinx Connect Virtual Conference.López, A., Flores Carmona, J., Casillas, C. (2021) Conocimiento colectivo: Resistingacademia’s corrosiveness through femtoring. National Women Studies Association(NWSA) Pre-Conference. Online.Lopez, A., Carmona, J. F., (2021) Contornos y procesos en la metodologia de testimonios: De lateoría a la práctica. Geotestimonios Transfronterisx: Workshop Series. Fondo de ArteTransFronterizo.Flores Carmona, J., López, A. (2019) Pláticas Testimonios: Toward a B/borderlandsEpistemological Movement of Solidarity. Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social,Summer Institute. University of Massachusetts-Amherst.Woodley, X., Howard, N., Pasha, S., López, A. (2019) Justice, Resistance, and the Politics of

4Knowledge: The Experiences of Women of Color in Intellectual Spaces. NationalWomen Studies Association Conference NWSA), San Francisco, CA.López, A., Woodley, X., & Salas, L. (2019) “Ésto es lo que hay” (This is all we got): The everydaysof Mexican families who have children with disabilities. National Women’s StudiesAssociation Conference. San Francisco, California.State and Regional – Peer ReviewedLópez, A. (March 2022) Framing our community entered teach-in. Creating connections: Thehealing power of community. Teach-in Spring 2022. Lesley UniversityLópez, A., Berembaum, T., Heller, C., Gould, S., Rutstein-Riley., A. (January 2022) Talkingabout the Sociocultural Perspectives Paper. Doctoral Winter Weekend Series. LesleyUniversityLópez, A. (September 2021) Testimoniando lo vivido: A conversation about Chicana/Latinaways of knowing. Sankofa Speaker Series: Hispanic Heritage Month. LesleyUniversity.López, A. (January 2021) Des-obediencia epistémica: Re-Thinking the Scope and Possibilities ofQualitative Research through Testimonio Methodologies. Lesley University 2021 GraduateSchool of Education (GSOE) doctoral program weekend. (Keynote speaker)Macedo, E., Stein N., López, A., Serpa, M. (November 2020) Where we are and where we must go inthe assessment of bilingual-English Language Learners with disabilities (online panel). LesleyUniversity 2020 Special Education Symposium. Cambridge Massachusetts.Chairez, N., Lara, D., López, A. (June 2020) Juntxs Vamos and the Borderlands online panel:Juntxs Vamos fundraiser webinar. Las Cruces, New Mexico.Liu, D. & López, A. (February 21-22, 2019) Learning to Serve the Needs of InternationalStudents in Post-Secondary Learning Environments. New Mexico Higher Educationand Assessment Retention Conference. Albuquerque, New MexicoLópez, A. & Dormody, T. (November 11, 2018) Rethinking the H-2A Visa Program for GuestAgricultural Workers: A Policy Brief Proposal. Domenici Scholar Symposium. NewMexico State University. Las Cruces, New MexicoLópez, A. & Salas L. (February 22-24, 2017). Cada cabeza es un mundo. Learning to face thechallenging posed by assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse students. NewMexico Higher Education and Assessment Retention Conference. Albuquerque, NewMexico POSTERSNational

5López, A., & Salas, L. (2017). Guerrera Fronteriza. The fights of a Mexican mother of a son whithintellectual disabilities in a Mexican northern border. National Association of MulticulturalEducation (NAME), Salt Lake City, Utah. Peer-refereedLópez, A., & Salas, L. (2016). Conexiones: Making connections with Mexican/Mexican AmericanStudents with LD in Schools. Council for Learning Disabilities (CLD). (Peer-refereed)StateLópez, A., & Salas, L. (2016). Retention strategies for Hispanic undergraduate students. NewMexico Higher Education Assessment and Retention Conference. Albuquerque, NM.(Peer-refereed)LocalLópez, A. & Ramírez Ruelas, G. (2022) Tejidos de Reflexión: Sharing pedagogical tools across theMexico-US border. Community of Scholars, Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.López, A. (2019) Familia y testimonio in special education. Planning a qualitative dissertation study.Multicultural Research Symposium, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.López, A (2018) “Endure or leave.” The challenges faced by guest agricultural workers with an H-2Avisa. Multicultural Research Symposium, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NewMexico.López, A., Madrid, S. (2018) “Del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho” when policy fails to serve theeducational needs of children with disabilities in Mexico. Multicultural Research Symposium,New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.López, A. (2017) Guerreras Fronterizas. The stories of a Mexican mother of a child with intellectualdisabilities. A case study. Graduate Research & Arts Symposyum (GRAS) New Mexico StateUniversity, Las Cruces NM. At the request of the GRAS (Graduate Research and Arts Symposium) &NMSU Graduate school. Space to share research that NMSU graduate studentshave presented during the 2016-2017 school year.López, A. (2016). Y nuestros derechos? The marginalization of undocumented immigrants withdisabilities in the U.S.- Mexico Border. Southwest Institute for Health Disparities Research.New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM.López, A., & Salas, L. (2016). Retention strategies for Hispanic undergraduate students. GraduateResearch and Arts Symposium Conference. Las Cruces, NM. At The request of the GRAS (Graduate Research and Arts Symposium) &NMSU Graduate school. Space to share presentations and posters that NMSUstudents have presented during the 2015-2016 school year.