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'''Sonia Nieto''' is a Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy and Culture at the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she focuses on the field of multiculturalism. She has won several awards in her field, including the 1997 Multicultural Educator of the Year award from the National Association for Multicultural Education, the 2005 Educator of the Year Award from the National Council of Teachers of English,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sonia Nieto to Focus on Why Teachers Stayâ€"in Spite of Everythingâ€"at 2008 Spring Meeting - 2008 Spring Meeting - National Writing Project |url=https://archive.nwp.org/cs/public/print/doc/08sm/sonianieto.csp |access-date=2023-09-15 |website=archive.nwp.org}}</ref> and honorary doctorates from Lesley University (1999), Bridgewater State College (2004), and DePaul University (2007).<ref>[http://people.umass.edu/snieto/aboutsonia.html Univ. of Massachusetts website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719191110/http://people.umass.edu/snieto/aboutsonia.html |date=2008-07-19 }}</ref>
Nieto was raised and attended public school in Brooklyn, New York.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=Kappan |date=2020-04-27 |title=Why we teach: A conversation with Sonia Nieto |url=https://kappanonline.org/why-we-teach-sonia-nieto-interview-teaching-heller/ |access-date=2024-05-29 |website=Kappan Online |language=en-US}}</ref> She later attended St. Johns University, where she received her B.S. in Elementary Education. Later, she studied in Madrid, receiving her M.A. in Spanish and Hispanic Literature. In the following years she taught in Brooklyn and the Bronx until moving to Massachusetts and receiving her doctorate in curriculum studies with concentrations in multicultural and bilingual education, from the University of Massachusetts in 1979.<ref>[http://www.sonianieto.com Personal website]</ref> In May 2017, Nieto delivered the commencement address for the Graduate School of Education at St. John's University in New York City.{{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
== Works == * {{Cite book |last=Nieto |first=Sonia |year=2018 |title=Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives for a New Century |edition=3rd |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781315465685 |oclc=945948341}} A compilation of previously published journal articles and book chapters. * {{Cite book |last1=Nieto |first1=Sonia |author-mask=2 |last2=Bode |first2=Patty |year=2012 |title=Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education |edition=6th |location=Boston |publisher=Pearson Education, Inc |isbn=9780131367340 |oclc=704907645}} * {{Cite book |last=Nieto |first=Sonia |author-mask=2 |year=2010 |title=The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities |edition=Tenth anniversary |location=New York |publisher=Teachers College Press |isbn=9780807750544 |oclc=965457387}} * {{Cite book |last=Nieto |first=Sonia |author-mask=2 |year=2002 |title=What Keeps Teachers Going? |location=New York |publisher=Teachers College Press |isbn=9780807743126 |oclc=471662211}}
; As editor * {{Cite book |editor1-last=Nieto |editor1-first=Sonia |year=2010 |title=Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives |edition=2nd |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415999687 |oclc=277196027}} * {{Cite book |editor1-last=Nieto |editor1-first=Sonia |year=2005 |title=Why We Teach Now |location=New York |publisher=Teachers College Press |isbn=9780807755877 |oclc=898092719}} * {{Cite book |editor1-last=Nieto |editor1-first=Sonia |year=2000 |title=Puerto Rican Students in U.S. Schools |location=Mahwah, N.J. |publisher=Lawrence Erlbaum Associates |isbn=9780805827651 |oclc=710022856}}
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== Sources == * {{Cite web |title=About Sonia Nieto |url=http://www.whyweteach.com/about-sonia-nieto.php |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090310085510/http://www.whyweteach.com/about-sonia-nieto.php |archivedate=10 March 2009 |work=Why We Teach |access-date=17 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}
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