Valentina Gamboa-Turner
Angelina Pedroso Center for Diversity and Intercultural Affairs
Associate Director
Office:
Room B 176
Phone:
(773) 442-5444
Email:
v-gamboa-turner@neiu.edu
Fax:
Room B 176
Office Hours:
By appointment
Country:
United States
Expertise
Latinx Student Success
Education
M.A Community and Teacher Leaders, June 2018
Å·²©ÓÎÏ·¹ÙÍø Illinois University, College of Education, Chicago, Ill.
Course work includes Education as a Social Institution, Critical Race Theory, The Urban World, Digital Literacy, Research Methods and Power, Communities and Change.
B.A. Women Studies Major, June 1999
Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.
McNair Fellow, Founding Cohort of Women Studies Major, Minor in Black Studies, President of Lo Nuestro Latina/o student organization, resident and founding committee member for the Islamic House.
Background
Experienced educator, researcher and project manager with more than 25 years of experience facilitating, designing and delivering within a diverse network of; K-12 schools, universities, and established neighborhood organizations throughout Chicago.
Facilitated: service-learning practicum for college of education
Designed: college/career pathways programing
Delivered: evidence-based healing-centered seminars with an inclusive collaborative design model
Additional Information
- Advisory Board for the Master of Arts in Community and Teacher Leaders, member
- The People’s Education Movement, Chicago, founding member
- Kuumba Lynx 2, YWLC’s performing arts collective, co- creative director
- Free Street Theater Company, writer and actor
- School Community Advisory Council, Gallistel Language Academy, committee member,
- Block Club, member
- South Chicago Advisory Committee, community member