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Tag: Mariana Pacheco

Mariana Pacheco Helps Bilingual Youth Find their Voices

Professor Mariana Pacheco and two collaborators published “Re-imagining social futures: Bi/multilingual youths’ sociocritical literacies” in the July 2025 issue of the Journal of Literacy Research. The paper focuses on a summer writing program that Pacheco and her colleagues called GANAS (an acronym using a word that means “desire” or “motivation” in Spanish) for bi/multilingual youth, …

CLS Affiliate Pacheco Named one of Wisconsin’s Most Influential Latino Leaders

The online news publication Madsion365 has placed Prof. Mariana Pacheco Ortiz on its list of the 46 most influential Latino leaders in Wisconsin.  Every year since its founding in 2015, Madison365 has compiled this list to recognize the achievements of influential leaders of color in the state.  A former bilingual (English-Spanish) teacher in Southern California, …