Alain Bengochea, Ph.D.
Board Secretary
abengochea@clvstrongstartes.org

Dr. Alain Bengochea is an Assistant Professor of English language learning in the Department of Early Childhood, Multilingual, and Special Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He was a former Spanish-English bilingual classroom teacher in Bronx, NY, and a postdoctoral researcher of early childhood bilingualism and biliteracy at The Ohio State University. He has been involved in local and state-level projects that investigate how perspectives and ideologies as well as school language and literacy practices influence the learning events for emergent bilinguals.