Lucinda Soltero-Gonzales

Lucinda Soltero-González is an associate professor of literacy education in the School of Education & Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver, where she also serves as co-associate editor of the Bilingual Research Journal. She joined CU Denver in 2018 after working as an assistant professor in the Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity program at the University of Colorado Boulder and previously as a biliteracy coordinator in Adams County School District 14 in Colorado. Her earlier professional experience includes work as an elementary classroom teacher and bilingual special education teacher in Mexico and the United States. She holds a Ph.D. in Language, Reading and Culture with an emphasis in literacy and bilingual education, as well as an M.A. in bilingual special education from the University of Arizona, and a B.A. in pedagogy from Panamerican University in Mexico City.

Soltero-González’s research focuses on the development of bilingualism and early biliteracy in young Spanish-speaking children and on biliteracy practices in U.S. schools. She is a co-author of Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action (Caslon, 2014), which presents the Literacy Squared approach to biliteracy instruction, and her work has appeared in peer-reviewed outlets such as the Bilingual Research Journal, the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism,