The College of Education and Borderlands Education Center (BEC) are hosting this in-person presentation Implications for Research and Practice: Fostering the Success of Transfronterizx Students in the Community College from the Douglas-Agua Prieta Border Region.
This session is focused on understanding how to foster the success of Transfronterizx students in postsecondary and higher education at the Arizona-Sonora borderlands. Participants will learn about the Transfronterizx student experience in the community college through photovoice research and the practices towards inclusion and validation for this student population at the Douglas-Agua Prieta border region. Concluding this session, participants will be invited to explore how they can create an inclusive and socially just campus environment for Transfronterizx college students at UofA.
Vannessa Falcón Orta, Ph.D.
Faculty Director, Cross-Cultural Center Founding Director, Transborder Student Ally Program San Diego State University- Imperial Valley
Dr. Vanessa Falcoìn Orta is Transfronteriza from the San Diego-Tijuana borderlands. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from San Diego State University, an M.S. in Counseling, Emphasis in Student Development in Higher Education ( SDHE) from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). She is also a Ph.D. in Education from the Joint Doctoral Program in Education (JDP) at SDSU & Claremont Graduate University (CGU). Currently, she is a Visiting Scholar for the Borderlands Education Center (BEC) at the University of Arizona (UofA), focusing on creating research and spaces of inclusion for Transfronterizx students in the community college at the Douglas-Agua Prieta borderlands. She is also an Adjunct Faculty teaching online in the Department of Counseling and Human Services at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. This November, she will join the SDSU campus community as Faculty Director for the new Cross-Cultural Center at SDSU Imperial Valley.
This session is focused on understanding how to foster the success of Transfronterizx students in postsecondary and higher education at the Arizona-Sonora borderlands. Participants will learn about the Transfronterizx student experience in the community college through photovoice research and the practices towards inclusion and validation for this student population at the Douglas-Agua Prieta border region. Concluding this session, participants will be invited to explore how they can create an inclusive and socially just campus environment for Transfronterizx college students at UofA.
Nolvia Ana Cortez Román, PhD
BEC Fellow 2022-2023
Dr. Cortez, is an applied linguist with a focus on language teaching and language use.
Her latest research has been with return migrant students in Mexico, exploring their translanguaging and transcultural practices, as well as how their migrant experiences impact their language and cultural identities.
She is a full-time professor at the Universidad de Sonora with the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate Program in Humanities and is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona with Mexican American Studies and fellow at the Borderlands Education Center (BEC).
