2018 Mellon Collaborative Summer Fellowship for Public Projects in the Humanities

Heritage Language Teaching and Learning Beyond Bars

This project with Alan-Michael Weatherford will develop a co-taught heritage-learner and pedagogical methods course through participatory and horizontal modes of civic engagement. The impetus behind such a course stems from a research question: How can we utilize and collaborate with the knowledge that incarcerated communities already produce to create the necessary structures that make college education in prison sustainable? By collaboratively working with the Hispanic population inside the Monroe Correctional Complex, this project facilitates understanding of how to build communities of learning inside the prison in ways that make them sustainable and perhaps even self-sustaining.

2015 Mellon Community College Fellowship for Reaching New Publics

Advisor: Anthony Geist (Spanish & Portuguese Studies)
Mentor: Asha Tran (Spanish, South Seattle College)

Angela and her faculty mentor designed a survey for two-year college students to better understand their perceptions of study abroad and to support access to these programs.