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About Our Presenters Beyond Ganas: Equipping Latino(a) Students to Identify, Understand, and Navigate Different Cultural Epistemologies in the Academy Dr. Tim Baldwin Mr. Martin Avila, Jr.
Adjunct Professor of Educational Ministries, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (NHCLC SCHOLARS) Program Coordination Calvin College’s Multicultural Student Development Office
Dr. Timothy Baldwin is a career educator with over thirty years of experience in classroom instruction, curriculum development, and teacher training. He has served as a middle and high school teacher, director of a non-profit organization that walked alongside refugees and immigrants, and an education professor in multiple contexts and institutions. Currently, Tim is serving as the interim pastor of an English-speaking church in Tegucigalpa, and providing intercultural education, training, and consulting in Honduras and the U.S. His primary research focus is Latino(a) undergraduate classroom learning experiences in predominantly white Christian institutions (PWI’s). Martin Avila currently serves as the program coordinator for the Multicultural Student Development Office at Calvin College. He is a graduate of Calvin College (Grand Rapids, MI) and is an M.Ed. student at Michigan State University.