Josie Yanguas
Josie Yanguas (jyanguas@yahoo.com) is the current chairperson of the Illinois Advisory Council for Bilingual Education as well as an executive board member of the Illinois Early Learning Council. She has also served since 1990 on the executive board of the Illinois Association for Multilingual Multicultural Education (IAMME). Prior to her appointment as director of the IRC, in 2006, she worked at the IRC coordinating various federally funded Title III projects as well as organizing the annual state bilingual conference. Josie’s areas of interest and focus are policies and programs related to bilingual education, foundations of bilingual education, and dual-language programming.
Yanguas holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Harvard University/Radcliffe College, and a master’s in education from the University of Pennsylvania.