Valeria Ortiz-Villalobos

Valeria Ortiz-Villalobos is a Ph.D. student in the Combined Program in Education and Psychology. As an educational psychologist, she studies language and literacy development in young bilinguals, with a special emphasis on Spanish-speaking children, including heritage Spanish speakers in the US. She is also interested in the role of the home language and literacy environment in shaping children’s school readiness. She collaborates with Dr. Satterfield and Dr. Kovelman in research related to the understanding of language representations in the bilingual brain in early childhood.