Marjorie Elaine Faulstich Orellana

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is Professor of Urban Schooling, Associate Director of the International Program on Migration, and Co-Director of Faculty for the Teacher Education Program. Her research centers on the experiences of immigrant youth in urban schools and communities, including as language and cultural brokers for their families. She is the author of Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth and Cultures (Rutgers University Press, 2009), Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces: Language, Learning and Love (Routledge, 2016), a 2019 co-edited volume (with Inmaculada García-Sánchez): Language and Cultural Processes in Communities and Schools: Bridging Learning for Students from Non-Dominant Groups (Routledge, 2019), and Mindful Ethnography: Mind, Heart, and Activity for Transformative Social Research (Routledge, 2019). She is a past president of the Council of Anthropology and Education and was a bilingual classroom teacher in Los Angeles from 1983 to 1993.