Join us for “Teaching Children, Reclaiming Indigenous Language, Making Change,” a Hopper College Tea featuring Trisha Moquino.
Trisha Moquino is a cheer mom and a lover and (up and coming) writer of diverse children’s picture books. She is a member of the Cochiti, Kewa, Ohkay Ohwingeh Tribal Nations. Trisha holds a BA from Stanford University and a MA from the University of New Mexico in Bilingual/Elementary Education. She is the Co-Founder/Elementary Keres Speaking Guide/Indigenous Montessori Institute (IMI) Facilitator at Keres Children’s Learning Center (KCLC), an Indigenous Language Immersion Montessori school, located in Cochiti Pueblo, NM which opened in 2012 and which she started working on in 2006. Her Montessori Teaching credentials include: American Montessori Society-Elementary I (6-9), Association Montessori Internationale (AMI)-Early Childhood, and Orientation courses for birth-3 years and Adolescence (12-18) . She continues to work and support her KCLC colleagues on the design and implementation of the IMI- KCLC’s anti-racist teacher training program. Trisha is an affiliate professor for the Loyola University Maryland Montessori Education program.