Anne Garcia

Annie García is the Project Manager and Bilingual Coordinator of Families and Community for Project PILAR. She is currently pursuing and Ph.D. in Literacy and Language and her dissertation focus is microaggressions, grounded in CRT, LatCrit, and testimonio. As the project manager, her responsibilities include communicating with participant teachers, overseeing the data collection of the family component, collecting and organizing classroom data, and recruitment of future cohorts. Ms. Garcia previously taught at ENL, Heritage Spanish, and Spanish I, II, and III at the high school level for ten years. She has three children, two of whom are current Boilermakers! When she is not busy working on the projects, you can often find her on a fall evening watching her youngest play football for Jefferson High School. She enjoys spending time with her children, whether that be lively discussion about life or intense games of Cranium or Uno.