Patricia Sánchez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She currently serves as the Program Committee Chair of and the Graduate Advisor of Record for the Culture, Literacy, and Language Ph.D. Degree (CLL). Dr. Sánchez was born and raised along the El Paso-Juárez border in a bilingual Mexican immigrant home and spent 8 years in Benson, Arizona. For nearly 20 years she has worked with non-profits, schools, and research organizations, both in Texas and California, to improve the educational and economic success of Latina/o immigrants in the U.S. She received her Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Studies at the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. During this time, she was awarded a prestigious Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. Prior to becoming an academic, she was a second-grade bilingual teacher in Houston, Texas, as well as an admission officer at a private university, and a non-profit community worker.
Learn more about Dr. Sánchez at http://education.utsa.edu/faculty/profile/patricia.sanchez@utsa.edu.
