Aradhana Mudambi

Affiliation

Mudambi Language Learning

Biography

Dr. Aradhana Mudambi is the founder and Executive Director of Multilingual Education at Mudambi Language Learning, LLC a consulting firm that supports schools, school districts, and cultural organizations to build and improve their multilingual programming, including their Dual Language, ESL, and World Language programs. Through Multilingual Language Learning, she provides professional development, consulting, and coaching. For the past few years, Dr. Mudambi has run her popular blog, Social Justice and Education, and written for Dual Language Schools. She has taught several courses such as Intercultural Communications, TESOL Methods, and Assessments for Bilingual Students at Eastern Connecticut State University and Multilingual Literacies at the University of Rhode Island. Furthermore, she served as the Director of Multilingual Education at Framingham Public Schools in Massachusetts where she oversaw Dual Language programs in Spanish and Portuguese. Additionally, she worked as the Director of Bilingual Education at Windham Public Schools, not only overseeing and restructuring Windham’s Two-Way Dual Language program, Compañeros, but also founding and building Dos Ríos, New England’s first One-Way Dual Language program. Dr. Mudambi has served as a building leader, a Dual Language teacher, an ESOL teacher, and a Spanish teacher. She has worked in India, Mexico, France, England, and the United States. You can reach Dr. Mudambi at arm977@mail.harvard.edu.