Lan Kolano
Lan Kolano
Professor and Chair
Middle, Secondary, and K12 Education
Lan Kolano is an educational researcher who focuses on the academic, language, and identity development of immigrant learners, and in the fostering of critical multicultural efficacy in teacher preparation programs. She has recently published “Rising Up in Solidarity: Southeast Asian Immigrant Youth Activism in North Carolina” in the Handbook of Social Justice Interventions in Education (2020) and “Transforming Preservice Teacher Perceptions of Immigrant Communities Through Digital Storytelling” in the Journal of Experiential Education (2021).