J. Eik Diggs

J. Eik Diggs,  is a licensed Spanish language and ESL teacher and PhD student at University of Arizona. She developed and taught a multi-year high school Spanish as a Heritage Language program in South Minneapolis, Minnesota. She anchors her language teaching in intra-ethnic studies and social justice content, and focuses on developing young people who are strong in their multiple identities and backgrounds. She is currently working on grow your own initiatives to develop multilingual teachers of color in the context of heritage language programs.