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Ruth Duran

Ruth Duran has been a public school teacher in the Bronx, NY, for the past 19 years, with a BA from New York University, MA from Pace University, and EdM from the Bank Street Graduate School of Education. She has also devoted her career to empowering multilingual learners and students of color by creating engaging learning opportunities that bring education to life.

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Empowering Education: Exploring Hispanic/Latinx Representation in Comics

Students want to read stories that matter to them and, most of all, they want to see themselves reflected within the pages of their beloved comics.

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