The CLL Collective

We work within collectives of scholars and practitioners, community organizers and leaders, families, and youth. Our core team members represent the fields of Language Teaching, Speech-Language Therapy, and Educational Administration and Leadership, as well as a variety of institutions in New York. We seek to engage teachers and community members in work that invites the conversation across boundaries previously set by standardized beliefs about languages.

  • FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR

    Dr. María Rosa Brea-Spahn (ella/she/her) holds a Ph.D. in Psychology with a minor in Language Science and a Master’s in Science in Speech-Language Therapy. Maria Rosa is a bilingual immigrant, a mother and partner, a critical teacher-scholar-learner. Her community collaborations with minoritized families and children who, like her, immigrated to the US, shape-shifted and had their tongues “tamed” by the system have primarily focused on decentering English, reclaiming all languaging as valid and necessary, and co-envisioning a path for linguistic liberation, all purposes and dispositions she also brings to the CLL.

The Collective

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