AERA 2026 - UC Links Related Presentations

Scholars and partners from throughout the UC Links international network will be coming to Los Angeles, April 8-12, 2026 to participate in the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association

Below are some examples of AERA posters and presentations by partners from throughout the UC Links network. This list is not exhaustive - please let us know of other presentations that we may have missed!

We are looking forward to seeing many of you from around the world in Los Angeles this April!

Wednesday, April 8

7:45am to 9:15am

• Ni nos incluyen: Emerging Multilingual Learners Perceptions of Exclusion — Marcela Alvarez & Jin-Sook Lee (UC Santa Barbara) [Presenting Authors]

• More Pathways, More Providers: Examining the Institutional Transformation of Administrator Preparation in California — Michelle D. Young (UC Berkeley) [Presenting Author]

• Developing a Praxis of Solidarity - Community Collective Actions through Expansive Learning — Sophina Choudry (University of Manchester) [Presenting Author]

9:45am to 11:15am

• Rasquache Storytelling: Collaborative Learning Through Arts and Advocacy in a Los Angeles Youth Program — Jackson Gzehoviak (UC Los Angeles) [Presenting Author]

• Embodying Servingness: The Value of Relationships for Latinx Transfer Students at Hispanic Serving Institutions — Saskias Casanova (UC Santa Cruz) [Presenting Author]

• Expanding Our Understanding: Research on Rural Community School Implementation — Rebecca Levine (UC San Diego) [Chair]

11:45am to 1:15pm

• Linguistic M(other)work as Pedagogy, Resistance, and Disruption: Language and Immigrant Futurity in Education Research — Jackson Gzehoviak (UC Los Angeles) [Co-Chair]

• In Search of Standard English: Accent and Prescriptivism as Linguistic Tools for Immigrant Mothers and Family Futurity — Jackson Gzehoviak (UC Los Angeles) [Presenting Author]

• Nurturing complementary nature-culture relations through routine field-based learning with people, places, and more-than-humans — Shirin Vossoughi (Northwestern University) [Presenting Author]

• Can Education Stop Killer Robots? Exploring Values, Ethics, and Impacts in K12 Computer Science Instruction — Thomas Philip (UC Berkeley) [Discussant]

• Instructional Supervision as Liberation: Culturally Responsive Mentorship Through National Board Facilitation — Travis Bristol (UC Berkeley) [Presenting Author]

• Division A Fireside Chat: Navigating Political Contexts in PK–12 Education: Research-Informed Strategies for Public Education — Michelle D. Young (UC Berkeley) [Panelist]

• Designing Transformative Research for Systemic Change in Teaching and Learning — Na'ilah Suad Nasir (Spencer Foundation)

1:45pm to 3:15pm

• Data and Computing in K–12 Education: Foundational Competencies – A Report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — Thomas Philip (UC Berkeley) [Discussant]

• Relations Between Parent Expectations and Youths' Math Expectancies Through STEM Extracurriculars: Gender By College Generation Status — Sandra Simpkins (UC Irvine) [Non-Presenting Author]

• The Politics of Institutional Neutrality in Higher Education: Ambiguity, Fear, and Democratic Erosion — Michelle D. Young (UC Berkeley) [Presenting Author]

Thursday, April 9

7:45am to 9:15am 

• Beyond the Code: Multilingual Fourth Graders’ Metacognitive Journeys Through Multimodal Texts — Valerie Meier (UC Santa Barbara) & Sabiha Sultana (Illinois Wesleyan University) [Presenting Authors]

2:15pm to 3:45pm 

• Learning by Observing and Pitching In (LOPI) Structured Poster Session 1 — Kris Gutiérrez (UC Berkeley) [Discussant] & Barbara Rogoff (UC Santa Cruz) [Chair]

• Good Hearts, Growing Minds: Novice Teachers' Understanding of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in GYO Programs — Travis Bristol (UC Berkeley) [Non-Presenting Author]

• The Future of AI in Education: Research, Policy, and Public Impact — Na'ilah Suad Nasir (Spencer Foundation) [Chair]

4:15pm to 5:45pm

• Envisioning Futures in Times of Crisis: Lessons from School-University-Community Partnership Research & Practice — Travis Bristol [Chair] (UC Berkeley). Angela Booker [Discussant] (UC San Diego)

• Youth Participatory Action Research: Transforming Systems to Address Student Homelessness — Deborah McKoy & Ruby Kosewicz-Strickland (UC Berkeley)

• Design Tensions in Developing Partnerships in Challenging Circumstances — Lee Martin & J.C. Leapman (UC Davis)

• Listening and Co-Creating Knowledge: A Qualitative Analysis of University Student Experiences of YPAR — Erin Ellison, Julia Early, Juan Suarez, Vanesa Reyes, Javier Vega, Jasleen Ralh (CSU Sacramento) & Paige Richards (Fresno Pacific University)

• A Critical Multimodal Content Analysis of Videogames, Policing, and Public Pedagogy — Joel Lovos (UC Santa Cruz) [Presenting Author]

• Learning by Observing and Pitching In (LOPI) Structured Poster Session 2 — Barbara Rogoff (UC Santa Cruz) [Chair]

6:00pm to 8:00pm

• University of California, Berkeley School of Education Reception – BSE Reception – Caña Rum Bar

6:15pm to 7:15pm

• Experiential Education and Community Engagement: Scholarship and Practice (SIG #41) Business Meeting — AERA Outstanding Conference Submission Award Presentation 

• John Cano

• Mara Welsh Mahmood

• Alessandra Pantano and Cynthia Sanchez Tapia

• Taylor Michelle Wycoff and Sandra D. Simpkins

• Jasmine M. Nation, Alejandro Yep, Perla Ramos Carranza, Xavier Aguilar, Isaiah Rivera, Jessica Garcia-Tapia, Thais Malfavon 

• Laura Vega Hernandez, Ellen Middaugh, and Mark K. Felton

• Marjorie Elaine 

• (Re)Constructing New Visions through Languaging: the Language and Social Processes (Un)Business Meeting — Cynthia Lewis (UC Santa Cruz) [Speaker/Awardee]

Friday, April 10

7:45am to 9:15am 

• Division C Sylvia Scribner Award Invited Talk by Dr. Geoffrey Saxe: Understanding Learning In and Out of School: A Cultural-Developmental Approach — Kris Gutiérrez (UC Berkeley) [Chair]

• Living Indigeneity: Incorporating Indigenous epistemologies in identity and learning research — Saskias Casanova (UC Santa Cruz) [Presenting Author]

• Cultural Values in Data Visualization: Insights from Young Professionals in Environmental STEM Careers — Guadalupe Rosas (UC Irvine) [Presenting Author]

9:45am to 11:15am

• Division C Jan Hawkins Award (Arturo Cortez) and Outstanding Early Career Scholar Award (Patrick Beymer) Invited Session — Kris Gutiérrez (UC Berkeley) [Participant]

• Jan Hawkins Winner: How to Create Justice-Oriented Technology for Teaching and Learning — Arturo Cortéz (UC Davis) [Presenting Author]

• Cultural Capital and Decision-Making: Autism Service Choices Among Immigrant Parents — Sabiha Sultana (Illinois Wesleyan University [Non-Presenting Author]

• The State of the K-12 Teaching Profession: Perennial Challenges and New Possibilities — Travis Bristol (UC Berkeley) [Presenter]

11:45am to 1:15pm 

• Youth Designing Socio-Ecological Futures: Reworlding Game Ecologies — Edward Rivero (Teachers College, Columbia University) & Arturo Cortez (UC Davis) [Presenting Authors]

• Reflections on Identity and Culture: Using Multimodal Literacies to Reimagine Histories, Selves, and Communities — Glynda Hull (UC Berkeley) [Presenting Author]

• Aprendiendo Adentro con la Migra Afuera: Immigrant & Refugee Education Amidst State-Sanctioned Violence — Micaela Bronstein (UC Los Angeles) [Presenting Author]

• From Margins to Momentum: Honoring Over 30 Years of Korean DLBE for Linguistic Justice — Jin-Sook Lee (UC Santa Barbara) [Discussant]

• Cultivating Latine Empowerment in STEM: How Culturally Responsive Mentor Strategies Foster Empowerment in After-School Programs — Sandra Simpkins, Taylor Wycoff & Guadalupe Rosas (UC Irvine) [Non-Presenting Authors]

• A Fireside Chat with the Books Editorial Board: Charting Future Directions for the Field — Travis Bristol (UC Berkeley) [Participant]

• Puentes Familiares: Facilitating Family Partnership in Out of School Time — Amy Bintliff (UC San Diego) [Presenting Author]

1:45pm to 3:15pm

• Centering Learners, Culture, and Care: Enacting Culturally Responsive Practices through University-Community Engagement — John Cano & Mara Mahmood [Chairs] (UC Berkeley). Marjorie Elaine [Discussant] (UC Los Angeles)

• Experiential Activity with Math CEO: Connecting Data and Life Stories through Culturally Responsive Teaching — Alessandra Pantano (UC Irvine) & Cynthia Sanchez Tapia (CSU Dominguez Hills)

• Culturally Responsive Practices: A Sociocultural Framework for Community-Engaged Learning — Taylor Wycoff & Sandra Simpkins (UC Irvine)

• Empowering Students of Different Ages Through Affirming Language in a Community-Engaged Bilingual Science Program — Jasmine Nation, Alejandra Yep, Perla Ramos Carranza, Xavier Aguilar, Isaiah Rivera, Jessica Garcia-Tapia, Thais Malfavon (California Polytechnic State University)

• Investigating Participatory Action-research as a Culturally Responsive Approach to Intergenerational Education in an Immigrant Community — Laura Vega Hernandez, Ellen Middaugh & Mark Felton (San José State University)

• Historicizing Los Angeles: Envisioning New Educational Futures in Latinx Radical Imaginations — Kris Gutiérrez (UC Berkeley) [Chair]

• Latine/x LGBTQ+ TikTok Counterspaces as Learning Communities Fostering Counternarratives and Intersectional Identities — Saskias Casanova (UC Santa Cruz) [Presenting Author]

• Transformative Social and Emotional Learning in a Youth Mental Health Advocacy Committee — Rebecca Levine (UC San Diego) [Presenting Author]

• Male Teachers of Color in the Social Context of Education — Travis Bristol (UC Berkeley) [Chair]

• Indigenous Education Across Tovaangar: Past, Present, Trans-Indigenous, and Future Horizons — Ananda M. Marin (University of California - Los Angeles)

3:45pm to 5:15pm 

• Democratic Citizenship in Education Business Meeting — Ellen Middaugh [Chair] (San José State University)

• Family Pedagogies and Intergenerational Learning on the Iranian Left — Shirin Vossoughi (Northwestern University) [Presenting Author]

Saturday, April 11

7:45am to 9:15am

• Educator Learning and Mutual Becoming in a STEAM and Storytelling Program — Shirin Vossoughi (Northwestern University) [Presenting Author]

9:45am to 11:15am

• Participatory Action Research as a Servingness Structure for Latinx Undocumented College Students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions — Cinthya Salazar (UC Los Angeles) [Presenting Author]

• Palestine, Third World Solidarities, and Projects of Educational Justice — Shirin Vossoughi (Northwestern University) [Presenting Author]

11:45am to 1:15pm 

• Scaling Equity-oriented Innovations for Just Education Futures: Navigating Power Relations During Contentious Times — Kris Gutiérrez (UC Berkeley) & Shirin Vossoughi (Northwestern University) [Panelists]

• Charting the Nuances in the Group Differences and Changes in Youths' Motivational Beliefs: Insights from Multiple Datasets — Sandra Simpkins (UC Irvine) [Presenting Author]

• Math Class is Like Flipping Tortillas: A Latina's Embodied Mathematics — Rebeca Mireles-Rios (UC Santa Barbara) [Presenting Author]

• Enduring Erasures, Radical Futures: Black Males' Survival in Education — Travis Bristol (UC Berkeley) [Chair]

• “¡Mamá! ¡Así no se dice!”: Exploring intergenerational and collective language practices amongst immigrant children and mothers — Jackson Gzehoviak & Micaela Bronstein (UC Los Angeles) [Presenting Authors]

3:45pm to 5:15pm

• Historicizing University-Community Links at 30: Proleptic Learnings in Resistance, Responsiveness, and Reimagining Education — Mara Mahmood & John Cano [Chairs] (UC Berkeley). Kris D. Gutiérrez (UC Berkeley) & Shirin Vossoughi (Northwestern University) [Discussants]

• Historicizing UC Links: Sustaining Resistance and Responsiveness in University-Community Partnerships — Eros Najera, Mara Mahmood & John Cano (UC Berkeley)

• Learning Lessons of Endurance: Long-Term Community-University Research Design — Camille Campion, Angela Booker (UC San Diego) & Veverly Anderson (Town & Country Learning Center)

• Sustaining University-Community Partnerships in Times of Change: Community-driven Goals Supporting Empowerment, Wellbeing, and Advocacy — Amy Bintliff, Itzel Gonzales Velazquez (UC San Diego) & Sayra Martinez (La Colonia de Eden Garden Inc)

• University-Community Partnership: Disrupting Institutional Culture and Honoring HSI Designation Through Community Servingness — Monique Estrada, Amanda Salcedo & Rebeca Mireles-Rios (UC Santa Barbara)

• “¡Mamá! ¡Así no se dice!”: Exploring intergenerational and collective language practices amongst immigrant children and mothers — Jackson Gzehoviak & Micaela Bronstein (UC Los Angeles) [Presenting Authors]

• Co-Designing AI technologies with Youth: Design Choices that Reify Inequities or Envision Expansive Possibilities — Thomas Philip (UC Berkeley) [Presenting Author]

5:45pm to 6:45pm 

• Business Meeting with the Cultural-Historical Research SIG

• Richard Durán — Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation

Sunday, April 12 

7:45am to 9:15am

• Designing for Affect and Embodiment: Ethical Attunements in the Futuring of Education — Angela Booker (UC San Diego) [Chair]. Shirin Vossoughi (Northwestern University) & Meg Escudé (UC Berkeley) [Discussants]

9:45am to 11:15am

• Imagining New Relations through Play: A Cultural-Historical and Ecological Approach to Multilingual World-Making — Edward Rivero (Teachers College, Columbia University) [Presenting Author]

• Making Mr. Evil French Cheetoh: In-school Makerspace Symbiotic Learning and Play of two Intersectionally-marginalized Girls — Lee Martin & J.C. Leapman (UC Davis)

• Leveraging Language Brokering: A Researcher-Teacher Partnership for Designing Language Brokering-Based Classroom Learning — Jackson Gzehoviak (UC Los Angeles) [Presenting Author]

• The Life and Legacy of Dr. Ernest D. Morrell: A Call to Embrace Our Collective Oaths — Kris Gutiérrez (UC Berkeley) [Participant]

• Critical Social Inquiry and the Politics of Post-truth: A Matter of Trust (Poster 18) — Michelle D. Young (UC Berkeley) [Presenting Author]

• Language Brokering in Diverse Contexts: Implications for Schools — Marjorie Elaine (UC Los Angeles) [Discussant]

11:45am to 1:15pm

• Constrained Inclusion Within Campus Environments: The Experiences of Undocumented College Students in California and Texas — Cinthya Salazar (UC Los Angeles) [Presenting Author]

• Disrupting Systemic and Systematic Educational Inequalities Through Legitimizing Racialized Non-Dominant Students' Power for Transformation — Sophina Choudry (University of Manchester) [Presenting Author]

1:45pm to 3:15pm

• Unsilencing the Past, Regifting the Present, and Manifesting Unforgettable Futures: Multiliteracies, Entertainment, and Popular Culture — Kris Gutiérrez [Discussant] (UC Berkeley)

• Ctrl+Alt+Resist: Digital protest and speculative activism in videogaming ecologies — Arturo Cortez (UC Davis)

• Speculative Fabulation and Algorithmic Resistance in Queer and Latinx Community-based AI Workshops — José Lizárraga (UC Berkeley)

• Centering Relationality & Expanding Knowledge through Artistic Practice: Transdisciplinary Education Research and Arts Methodologies for Change — Meg Escudé (UC Berkeley) [Chair]

• Letters to Lab Rats and Stories of Magical Stardust; Storying as Relationally Mediated Artistic Practice — Meg Escudé (UC Berkeley) [Presenting Author]

• Feeling the data: Mirrored Invitations to Make, Listen and See Educational Possibility — Shirin Vossoughi (Northwestern University) [Presenting Author]