Dr. Laura Alamillo has been appointed to serve one year as Interim Dean of the Kremen School of Education and Human Development. Dr. Alamillo previously served as Associate Dean for the Kremen School and is currently the Executive Director for Programs for Children at Fresno State.

Dr. Alamillo has a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in Language, Literacy and Culture and came to Fresno State in 2004. Prior, she taught for Migrant Education in an East Bay elementary school district. In addition to her experience in schools, Dr. Alamillo continues her research in the education of emergent bilingual children looking specifically at additive teaching practices used in classrooms to recognize and validate racially, culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Recently she published a co-edited book, Voices of Resistance, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chican@ Children’s Literature published in 2018 by Rowman and Littlefield. She is currently working alongside her colleagues on promoting residency based models in teacher preparation and Bilingual Teacher Academies in local districts.