Author Profile: Andrea Gambino

Dr. Andrea Gambino (she/her) earned her Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2023. Her dissertation highlights how secondary teachers’ positionalities/lived experiences and exposure to multiple critical social theories guide their trajectories as social justice educators and their pedagogical orientations of critical media literacy. Andrea is an active co-organizer of the annual Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas, UNESCO DC-MÉT Symposiums, and she is presently authoring a monograph based on her dissertation while serving as a Research, Design, and Instructional Coaching Consultant continuing her work with teachers in the U.S. and China situating a Project-based Inquiry Global Framework (Spires et al., 2021) responsive to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals for 2030