Dr. Veronica Benavides has spent her career exploring and advocating for the intersection of identity, language, and learning. Throughout her career in education—as a high school and middle school teacher, a Fulbright scholar, researcher at Harvard, a leadership coach, and the Executive Director of a leading early childhood educational research and training center—she’s always sought to create strengths-based environments where all people and children thrive.

Now, as founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, Dr. Benavides works to support the reclamation and flourishing of heritage languages across global contexts. Through innovative learning resources for children and cohort-based programs for educators and families, Bilingual Generation decolonizes language learning to promote bilingualism in homes and schools.