About
Maria Coady is the Goodnight Distinguished Professor in Educational Equity at North Carolina State University and Professor of Multilingual Education (NCSU). Prior to working at NC State, Dr. Coady was a Professor of ESOL/Bilingual Education at the University of Florida (2003-2022).
Dr. Coady’s work examines equity and education for rural multilingual learner students (ML), their families, and the educators who serve them. She is a national and international scholar, teacher, teacher educator, and advocate for bilingual and multilingual students and families. She consults with the US Department of Justice and Office for Civil Rights.
Dr. Coady was the past Chair of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Bilingual Education Research SIG. In 2020 she received the AERA award for Exemplary Contributions to Practice-Engaged Research. She is past President of the Florida Association for Bilingual Education (FABE) and the current President of the Carolina Association for Bilingual Education (CarABE). She serves on the Executive Board of the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE). In 2023, she held the first national conference on Rural English learner Education and Research (CREER, which means “to believe” in Spanish).
Dr. Coady conducts research and teacher education internationally and is a US Fulbright Fellow, having served in Ukraine (2013) and South Africa (2016). In 2021-22 she served as Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences for the U.S. Fulbright Commission at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.