Faculty & Staff

Melissa Bradford

• She/Her/Hers
• Doctoral Program Coordinator; Senior Professional Lecturer
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Joseph Gardner

• Program Director, Curriculum Studies Doctoral Program; Associate Professor
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Jason Goulah

• Director, Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education; Program Director, Value Creating Education for Global Citizenship Doctoral Program; Professor
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Nozomi Inukai

• She/Her/Hers
• Translation, Research, and Instruction Faculty, Institute for Daisaku Ikeda Studies in Education
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Karlee Johnson

• Professional Lecturer
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Andrea Kayne

• She/Her/Hers
• Program Director, Educational Leadership Doctoral Program; Associate Professor
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Donna Kiel

• Instructional Assistant Professor
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Gonzalo A. Obelleiro

• Assistant Professor
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Sung Park-Johnson

• She/Her/Hers
• Associate Professor, Director of Bilingual and ESL Minors
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Barbara Rieckhoff

• She/Her/Hers
• Associate Dean, Associate Professor
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Leodis Scott

• Associate Professor
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Sonia Soltero

• Professor and Chair
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Department Office Staff

Sonia Soltero
Chair 
(773) 325-4788 
2247 N. Halsted St., Office 347
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Andrea Kayne
Program Director, Educational Leadership
(773) 325-7661
2247 N. Halsted., Office 355
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Jason Goulah
Program Director, Bilingual-Bicultural Education, Value-Creating Education for Global Citizenship, and World Language Education
(773) 325-2076 
2247 N. Halsted St., Office 354 
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