Student & Alumni Profiles

Bushra Amil: Outstanding Graduate Student in Literacy, Language and Culture

Bushra Amil is the 2024 Outstanding Graduate Student in Literacy, Language and Culture in the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development. Her research interests include language and literacy, applied linguistics, translanguaging and TESOL. Before coming to UMaine she was an English (ESL) teacher in Pakistan. You can read a Q&A with Amil below.

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Samantha Vasquez: Social Justice in Higher Education Award

Samantha (Sam) Vasquez (she/her/ella) of Coachella, California is the 2024 recipient of the Social Justice in Higher Education Award from the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development’s graduate programs in higher education. Read a Q&A with Vasquez below.

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