Christina Lopez

Christina Lopez is a Chicana educator and migrant education advocate, born and raised in South Central Wisconsin to migrant workers from Texas and Colorado. She is the first in her family to earn two master's degrees, one in Bilingual Education from Edgewood College and the other in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from UW-Madison. She has served as a bilingual educator in K-12 classrooms for 9 years in Milwaukee and Madison. She has served for two years as a High School Equivalency Program Instructor at Madison College helping migratory agricultural workers and their families complete or revalidate their high school diploma. She currently serves the Department of Public Instruction Title I School Support Team as the Migrant Education Program Coordinator for the State of Wisconsin.  It is her belief that education holds the keys to the doors of liberty and justice.