Hazel Vega Quesada
Project Manager, Department of Education and Human Development
Dr. Hazel Vega Quesada is the project manager for the grant Building Capacity for Early Multilingual Learners: Bridging Literacy, Reading Recovery®, and ESOL (CU Bridge ESOL & RR) at the College of Education in the Department of Education and Human Development. She has worked on teacher preparation extensively in the United States and Costa Rica at undergraduate and graduate levels, and in professional development for government initiatives. Her research explores teacher learning in pre-service and in-service contexts. She is interested in the identity construction among teachers of English as a second/foreign language and the professional development of teachers serving multilingual learners. Her work also examines and develops participatory research innovations.