Gliset Colόn

Gliset Colón,Ph.D. is currently an Assistant Professor in the Exceptional Education Department at SUNY Buffalo State. She has the distinct pleasure of coordinating the Teaching Bilingual Exceptional Individuals Graduate Certificate Program. She is also the owner of and an educational consultant for Valley Equity Consulting. She is actively involved in several professional organizations including the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), and the New York State Association for Bilingual Education (NYSABE). Dr. Colón teaches courses on topics related to bilingual special education, behavior and classroom management, and foundations of special education. In addition to teaching, she has research interests and expertise in literacy and language outcomes for multilingual students with and without disabilities, multi-tiered systems of support, disproportionality, and culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy.