Faculty

Nolvia Ana Cortez Román, PhD.
BEC Fellow 2022-2023

Dr. Iliana Reyes
Director of Borderlands Education Center (BEC)
Associate Dean
Professor, Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies
Associate Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP
Member of the Graduate Faculty

Dr. Etta Kralovec
BEC Founder
Member of the General Faculty
Project Director (retired) Professor Emerita
Associate - Associate Agent Emeritus

Sergio Catenazzo
Teacher, BUSD, NFS – Noyce Border Scholar

Jose Gonzalez
Teacher, TUSD

Celeste González de Bustamante
Associate Professor, UA School of Journalism, Director Center for Border & Global Journalism

Francisco Lara-Valencia
Associate Professor, School of Transborder Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Francesca Lopez
Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy

Embajador Ricardo Pineda Consulado de México en Douglas, AZ
Consulado de México en Douglas, AZ

Cónsul Rafael Barceló Durazo Consulado de México en Tucson, AZ
Consulado de México en Tucson, AZ

Dr. Nadia Alvarez Mexia
Co-Director of Borderlands Education Center (BEC) 2020-2023
Assistant Professor of Practice, W.A. Franke Honors College
Director of Transborder Education Initiatives, College of Education