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Nieto, Sonia 1943-

PERSONAL:

Born September 25, 1943, in Brooklyn, NY; daughter of Federico (a co-owner of a Caribbean grocery store) and Esther (a homemaker and co-owner of the grocery store) Cortes; married Angel Nieto, January 4, 1967; children: Alicia Nieto Lopez, Marisa Nieto McKnight. Ethnicity: "Puerto Rican." Education: St. John's University, Brooklyn, NY, B.S., 1965; New York University, M.A., 1966; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Ed.D., 1979.

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E-mail—[email protected].

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Teacher of English, Spanish, and French and coordinator of English-as-a-second-language program at a junior high school in Brooklyn, NY, 1966-68; bilingual teacher at a public bilingual school, Bronx, NY, 1968-70, curriculum specialist, 1970-72, and supervisor of summer day elementary school, 1971; Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, instructor in Puerto Rican studies and deputy head of department, 1972-75; Massachusetts Department of Education, Springfield, coordinator in Bureau of Equal Educational Opportunity, 1979-80; University of

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Featured Speaker: Sonia Nieto, Ed.D.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she was educated in the New York City Public Schools. She attended St. John's University, Brooklyn campus, where she received a B.S. in Elementary Education in 1965. Upon graduation, she attended New York University's Graduate Program in Madrid, Spain, and received her MA in Spanish and Hispanic Literature in 1966.

A junior high school teacher of English, Spanish, and ESL in Ocean Hill/Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1968 she took a job at P.S. 25 in the Bronx, the first fully bilingual school in the Northeast. Her first position in higher education was as an Instructor in the Department of Puerto Rican Studies in Brooklyn College, where she taught in a bilingual education teacher preparation program co-sponsored with the School of Education.

Moving to Massachusetts with her family in 1975, she completed her doctoral studies in 1979 with specializations in curriculum studies, bilingual education, and multicultural education.

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Sonia Nieto has devoted her professional life to questions of diversity, equity, and social justice in education. Professor Emerita in Language, Literacy, and Culture at the College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Nieto’s research focuses on multicultural and bilingual education, teacher education, and the education of students of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. She has written or edited thirteen books, including, most recently, Teachers Speak Up! Stories of Courage, Resilience, and Hope in Difficult Times, with her daughter Alicia López Nieto (2024); the seventh edition of Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, with Patty Bode (2018); and the third revised edition of Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives (2018). A memoir, Brooklyn Dreams: My Life in Public Education was published by Harvard Education Press in 2015. Her first book, Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, now in its 7th edition (the 5th through 7th editions co-authored with her friend and colleag