Kelly León

Before coming to UWGB Kelly worked in teacher education at San Diego State, and for 19 years as a social studies/human geography teacher for a large urban school district where she led efforts to reconceptualize and update her district’s required geography course and other curricular initiatives. Kelly completed her undergraduate degree, bilingual teaching credential, and M.E.d in Policy Studies in Language & Cross-Cultural Education at San Diego State University and her PhD in Education for Social Justice at the University of San Diego. Her research interests include geography education, educational/social justice, and teachers’ knowledge work and curriculum-making. You can view Kelly's scholarly work on her Google Scholar page.