Dr. Francesca López

Dr. Francesca A. López is the Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Penn State University. She began her career in education as a bilingual (Spanish/English) elementary teacher, and later as a high school counselor, in El Paso, Texas. She holds a Ph.D. in educational psychology and her research has been funded by numerous foundations.

She is a co-editor of the National Education Policy Center publications and co-editor of #1 journal in education research, Review of Educational Research. Dr. López has also been honored as an American Psychological Association Fellow, an American Educational Research Association Fellow, and National Education Center Policy Fellow.