Cristina Gillanders

Cristina Gillanders, PhD, is an associate professor of early childhood education at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research focuses on dual language learners, emergent literacy, minority parents’ beliefs and practices, and home–school partnerships. She has also served on the board of directors of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Gillanders contributed the chapter “Using Culturally Sustaining Literature for Latino Children in the Early Childhood Classroom” to Multicultural Literature for Latino Bilingual Children: Their Words, Their Worlds, Second Edition, edited by Belinda Bustos Flores and published by Bloomsbury.