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Kimberley Gomez’, Professor of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, centers her work in examining teachers’ and students’ development and use of literate practices in formal and informal contexts. Her learning sciences research, design and analytic efforts are aimed towards (1) improving access to content area and disciplinary learning, particularly for K-12, community college, adult and workplace learners, with a special emphasis on mathematics and science; (2) supporting improved learning contexts, pedagogy, curricula, and assessments through language and literacy-infused mathematics and science design; (3) engaging in developmental evaluation research in school reform efforts, after school programs, and career technical education settings. Her design-based research also has a strong emphasis on collaborative curricular design and support for classroom implementation with instructors in grade 6-Community College.

A second research strand involves new media literacy studies of learning through the use of digital technologies and social networking environments across learning ecologies (schooling, YPAR, after-school, and online). A special focus of this research is on the affordances of tools to support literacy development, literacy production, and critical literacy. Her theoretical influences include improvement science, situated cognition, constructivist, intersectionality, and critical perspectives. She uses discourse analytic framing (social semiotic analysis) to describe and compare talk in classroom, after-school and community programs, and online contexts.

Gomez received the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She served as a post-doctoral fellow and a research associate in the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS) NSF-funded study at Northwestern, in Northwestern University’s, Learning Sciences program. Gomez has been a tenured faculty member at University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Pittsburgh, and is currently a tenured Professor of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is jointly appointed in the Information Studies department at UCLA. Since 2011, Gomez has been the lead language and literacy fellow at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She is on the Board of Directors for the 9Dots Foundation, Los Angeles. She is the recipient of numerous awards in recognition of her outstanding career. In 2018, she received the Bobbie and Mark Greenfield Faculty Award for Applied Research in Learning and Achievement. In 2017, she received the Distinguished Teaching Award from UCLA’s Graduate School of Education. She is an Osher Fellowship recipient (awarded by the Exploratorium). She is a Sudikoff Family Institute for Education & New Media fellow (2013-14) and received the Harold A. and Lois Haytin Faculty Award, from Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA for her collaborative work with practitioners.

Gomez is the author of over 55 refereed journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceeding articles. She also recently published a blog in the Huffington Post and an essay in the Center for International Relations’ International Affairs Online Forum. Kimberley is married to Louis M. Gomez, Professor of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Together, they are the parents of five children. Kimberley enjoys travel, reading, writing, genealogical research, and playing with the family dogs, Milo and Eubie.