Creolizing the white spaces of teacher education: Possibilities and tensions of a pedagogy of mestizaje in the crossroads

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Mia Angélica Sosa-Provencio

Mia Angélica Sosa-Provencio is assistant professor of Secondary Education in the Department of Teacher Education, Educational Leadership, and Policy at the University of New Mexico. Prior to earning her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from New Mexico State University, Sosa-Provencio taught 9th- through 12th-grade language arts for 7 years at Rio Grande High School in the South Valley of Albuquerque. Her research focuses on framing education as a means for social justice with particular focus on teacher education that engages youth in their multiple identities and lived realities, especially young men and women who find themselves on the margins of public schooling. Born in Las Cruces, Sosa-Provencio is a proud native New Mexican with multigenerational roots dating back centuries in both Northern and Southern New Mexico and Juárez, Mexico.