Marilee Coles-Ritchie

Marilee Coles-Ritchie has experience working in the field of language acquisition and multicultural education for over 30 years. She has taught Multilingual Learners in many diverse settings including a public high school in Douglas, Arizona, a bilingual secondary school in Quito, Ecuador, and an elementary school in the Navajo Nation. She has a Masters of Teaching degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and a Ph.D. in Cultural and Social Foundations of Education. As Full Professor at Westminster University she teaches educational foundations, qualitative research methods, and TESOL endorsement courses.