Nidia Carranza is a 2019-20 Teach Plus Illinois Early Childhood Educator Policy Fellow. Nidia teaches bilingual-Spanish Pre-K in a blended classroom at Marvin Camras in Chicago’s Belmont-Cragin neighborhood, where she also teaches students coding during the after-school hours. She also organizes Know Your Rights canvasses, community clean-ups, and mentors students from the City Colleges of Chicago. Nidia graduated from Northeastern Illinois University with a BA in Social Work and received her MSEd in Early Childhood Education from Dominican University.
