Claudia Cervantes-Soon

Claudia Cervantes-Soon is an associate professor in the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on bilingual education, multilingual learners, and transnational and borderlands communities, examining how race, class, gender, language, and citizenship shape educational contexts. Using community-engaged critical ethnographic approaches, Cervantes-Soon studies agency, critical literacy and biliteracy, and identity among children, families, and communities, with particular attention to bilingual education, educational equity, and cross-cultural solidarity. She is the author of the award-winning book Juárez Girls Rising: Transformative Education in Times of Dystopia. Cervantes-Soon holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction from the University of Texas at Austin, an MEd in bilingual education from the University of Texas at El Paso, and a BIS in bilingual education from the University of Texas at El Paso.

updated 2026