Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
(University of California, Berkeley)

Marjorie Faulstich Orellana is a postgraduate researcher at the University of California at Berkeley. She is conducting an ethnographic study of immigrant children's daily life experiences in central Los Angeles, part of a comparative case study of childhoods in California. Her work highlights language and literacy practices, and has been published in journals such as the Reading Research Quarterly , Linguistics and Education, and the Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

Anna Eunhee Chee
(University of Southern California)

Anna Chee was born in Seoul, Korea. In 1969 her family immigrated to the United States. She and her siblings were then raised in Los Angeles. She is bilingual and bicultural. For six years, she was a classroom teacher at public schools in both urban and suburban communities in the Greater Los Angeles area. Experiences of learning English as a second language herself and teaching language minority students as a teacher have kindled a passion for understanding aspects and processes involved in learning languages. She has studied the nature and aspects of the first and second language learning and literacy development processes at the University of Southern California. Currently, she is working on her dissertation. The focus of her dissertation is Korean immigrants' experiences and processes of learning English as a second language. Over the past several years, under the guidance of Barrie Thorne, in collaboration with other researchers at both Berkeley and Los Angeles, she is working on a multi-site and multi-ethnic research project titled, "California Childhoods" sponsored by the MacArthur Network Foundation. She lives in Los Angeles. She teaches theories and research in literacy development and learning at California State University at Los Angeles.