Laura Ascenzi-Moreno

Laura Ascenzi-Moreno is a Professor of Bilingual Education and Bilingual Program Coordinator in the Childhood, Bilingual, and Special Education Department at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She earned her Ph.D. in Urban Education from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2012 and previously worked for more than a decade as a dual language bilingual teacher and coach in New York City public schools. From 2012 to 2016, she served as an Associate Investigator for the City University of New York–New York State Initiative on Emergent Bilinguals (CUNY-NYSIEB).

As a bilingual literacy researcher and teacher educator, Ascenzi-Moreno focuses on literacy instruction and learning for emergent bilinguals, students who use two or more languages in their daily lives. She is co-author of Rooted in Strength: Using Translanguaging to Grow Multilingual Readers and Writers, published by Scholastic in 2021, which applies translanguaging theory to everyday literacy practices in elementary classrooms.