About me
Dr. María Heysha Carrillo Carrasquillo is a scholar, educator, and storyteller whose work sits at the intersection of language, place, and social identity in multilingual education. María Heysha is an assistant professor of early childhood education at the University of Hawai`i, West O'ahu. Her scholarly work centers the stories of those who cross cultural, geographic, and linguistic borders in pursuit of educational futures, honoring the resilience and complexity those journeys carry.