Outreach
Click on the tabs below to learn more about my on- and off-campus outreach initiatives and collaborations.
The Spanish in Society Enrichment Program is a school program co-founded and co-directed with PhD candidate Meritxell Feliu Ribas. This program promotes sociolinguistic justice, linguistic valorization, and critical language awareness among Spanish-speaking elementary and middle school students by positioning them as language experts and training them in sociolinguistic principles through hands-on, linguistics-based activities and projects.
The program is being offered weekly during the 2025–2026 academic year at the Greater Brunswick Charter School, with the collaboration of Daniela Suastegui (After School Academy Coordinator) and Lilia Fabila-Guilbot (Family Coordinator), and has been funded by an IDEA Innovation Grant from Rutgers’ Division of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement.
Discover Multilingual New Brunswick is a city-wide scavenger hunt that invites participants to explore languages in public space. Participants use a custom-built web app to navigate an interactive map, visit and learn about culturally and linguistically significant sites in New Brunswick, and complete brief surveys at each location.
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This project is a collaboration among a group of interdisciplinary scholars, including Dr. Nicole Houser (Webster University), Claudio Mir (Rutgers Collaborative Center for Community Engagement), and Dr. Kate Riley (Rutgers, Department of Anthropology). It was developed through the Division of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement’s Research2Practice Fellowship program.
Multilingual New Jersey invites you, yes YOU, to become a linguistic landscape researcher – a citizen scientist dedicated to better understanding the languages of our community.
Utilizing the LingScape platform, created by Dr. Christoph Purschke and Dr. Peter Gilles of the University of Luxembourg (Purschke & Gilles, 2016), we invite students, faculty, and community members across New Jersey to help us document our state’s rich multilingual linguistic landscape.
To join the project: 1. Download the LingScape app (Google Play, App Store)
2. Open the app, click Info → Settings
3. Locate Join a new project, and enter the password LLNJ
4. Add photos at any time to contribute to our ongoing documentation!
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Purschke, Christoph / Gilles, Peter (2016 ff.): Lingscape – Citizen science meets linguistic landscaping. Esch-sur-Alzette: University of Luxembourg. https://lingscape.uni.lu.