Dr. KimOanh Nguyen-Lam, Associate Director

tel: 562 985-5806
email: kclam@csulb.edu

Dr. KimOanh Nguyen-Lam is currently the Associate Director of the Center for Language Minority Education and Research at CSU Long Beach. She has been with CLMER since its inception in 1993, joining other CLMERites in the desire to promote educational equity for racial and linguistic minority students, families, and communities. Her areas of expertise include designing and evaluating programs and curricula for culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse students; providing training in critical pedagogy, technology integration, community-based interdisciplinary curricula development, and effective instructional strategies for English language learners; designing coursework and online curriculum for CLAD/BLCAD teacher preparation and teacher in-service programs; conducting institutional program reviews of teacher preparation programs; and facilitating comprehensive program evaluations of schools and districts.

She has been on the faculty at CSU Long Beach and CSU Fullerton designing and teaching courses for the Bilingual Teacher Education, Educational Psychology, and Asian American Studies Departments. She participated in the design, implementation, and evaluation of the first California State University state-wide web-based teacher preparation program. She also serves on various State Advisory Panels and Committees related to teacher credentialing and preparation programs and policies. Dr. Nguyen-Lam founded and coordinated the Asian BCLAD Credential Consortium Program, bringing together five different Cal State University Campuses in the LA basin area to form a collaborative model offering bilingual teaching credential in six Asian languages: Cantonese/Mandarin, Khmer, Korean, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.

Prior to joining CLMER at CSU Long Beach, Dr. Nguyen-Lam was with the public school systems in Orange County for 14 years, teaching in elementary, junior high and high school programs. She was a bilingual teacher, resource teacher, mentor teacher, district ELD coordinator, and project director for Title I and Title VII working with refugee students from Southeast Asia, immigrant students from Latin America, and high school migrant students. She was also a teacher trainer for the Orange, Riverside, and Los Angeles County Offices where she specialized in multicultural, anti-racist education, ELD and SDAIE, and other effective instructional strategies for English learners. Dr. Nguyen-Lam was the president of NAFEA the National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans and continues to take a leadership position in promoting educational and linguistic rights for these groups. She also served on the board of CABE the California Association for Bilingual Education, CAAPAE the California Association for Asian and Pacific American Education and CAFABE the California Association for the Asian Bilingual Education. She is an active community member, working to promote heritage language preservation and development for younger generations. She was successful in mobilizing her community and local school districts to institutionalize Vietnamese Language Program at the secondary level and helped organize teacher training for over 300 Vietnamese heritage language teachers every year at CSU Long Beach in collaboration with the Association of Vietnamese Language and Cultural Schools and Center of Southern California. At CLMER, KimOanh found her passion and vision for social and educational equity being supported and advanced by other committed and dedicated CLMER members.