Yohanis De La Fuente

A mother, wife, educator, and transformational leader who has completed research on language functionality in relation to identity, translanguaging, translation of science, and in-group bias. She considers being a mother and wife amongst the greatest accomplishments of her life and loves to spend time with her family and friends. Advocating for people in need is her most treasured work. She is a director of a Christian charitable foundation to support children in Honduras. Leading by example is at the center of her values to be a role model to her own children. As an educator with demonstrated leadership, she actively supports local, national, and international science education organizations (DFW-SS, TSELA, SSMA, and ASTE) by providing quality professional development to STEM and bilingual educators. Her activism has also resulted in leading grants to certify teachers in computer science in partnership with We Teach_CS Center of UT Austin. She also assisted in developing the curriculum for a Latina STEM program at Tarrant County College. She is currently an active editorial board member of the School Science and Mathematics and Innovations in Science Teacher Education journals. Her consulting research has led medical residents and doctors from UNTHSC and TTUHSC to present at conferences and produce international publications. Recently, Yohanis expanded her research skills by leading customer validation research for the business world and continues performing research to improve education in the topic of data driven decision and the impact of language in science education.