Alejandra Garcia Isaza, PhD
Alejandra Garcia Isaza, PhD, is a Provost’s Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow and an affiliate of the Texas Center for Equity Promotion (TexCEP) at the University of Texas at Austin. She earned her MS and PhD in Prevention Science from the University of Oregon. She completed her undergraduate studies in Psychology in Medellín, Colombia.
Dr. Garcia Isaza’s research aims to equitably improve educational outcomes for Latino populations in the U.S. and Latin America by understanding and resolving disparities in public education systems. In addition, she studies the protective role of parenting as well as the role of families’ and educators’ cultures in improving home-school collaboration.
alejandra.garciaisaza@austin.utexas.edu