F. Isabel Campoy

F. Isabel Campoy has a language as an equal justice mission in life and has provided her with multiple opportunities to challenge preconceived notions and laws of how immigrant children learn. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas has denounced “linguistic genocide” since the 1960s in the United Nations. Her four volumes “Language Rights” have informed her thoughts and kept her as an ardent advocate of bilingualism and the importance of maintaining heritage languages in schools and social settings in the United States, not just as an educational advantage but as a human right.

To that goal, they are promoting in-depth studies on the topic of home-school connection, collaborating in the creation and distribution of literature in Spanish, and encouraging publishers to publish books, whether original or in translation, in that language. Since 2009, she has been a member of ARC’s Advisory Board, joining their efforts to make heritage languages part of an equal justice mission in education.