Writing
I write for grown-ups (educators, caregivers and researchers), children & youth.
For Educators
Pedagogies of Belonging: Educators Building Welcoming Communities in Settings of Conflict and Migration (edited by Sarah Dryden-Peterson and Hania Mariën). Refugee REACH, Harvard Graduate School of Education: Cambridge, www.reach.gse.harvard.edu.
Educator Toolkit: Celebrating 25 Years of the Américas Award 1993-2018 - Resources to Honor Latinx Literature Within and Beyond the Classroom, published by the Consortium for Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP)
Blog posts for the University of New Mexico's Latin American and Iberian Institute's Vamos a Leer Blog , focused on teaching Latin America through literacy (my writing here)
Blog post and "What we're reading" book reviews for the Research, Education, and Action to create Change and Hope initiative, focused on creating more welcoming communities and quality education in settings of migration and displacement (my writing here).
Image from the educator toolkit link above
For Researchers
Mariën, H., & Kirby, A. (2023). The Power Rainbow: a tool to support 3rd–5th graders in analyzing systems of power. Frontiers in Education. 8:1185685. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1185685
Dryden-Peterson, S., & Mariën, H. (2021). The Right to Education. In J. McAdam, M. Foster, & C. Costello (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Refugee Law.
For Children & Youth
From the Top of the Calendar (at left), self-published 2014. This book draws on Gloria Anzaldúa's idea of the "Borderlands", and my own experience growing up in the borderlands as a child.
I Am Because We Are, self-published in 2017. This book features poems written by high school Willamette Academy students in authorship workshop series focusing on migration theory; led in partnership with Olivia Orosco and author Isabel Campoy. Available upon request. Funds from any purchases are given to the collaborating organization, Willamette Academy.
