Ana Celia Zentella

Professor Emerita in the Ethnic Studies Department of the University of California San Diego; anthropolitical linguist, studies U.S. LatinU varieties of Spanish and English; author of award-winning Growing up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New York, and co-author of Spanish in New York: Language Contact, Dialect Leveling, and Structural Continuity; editor of Multilingual San Diego and Multilingual Philadelphia, written by her students; inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023.