Luz Santana is the co-founder of the Right Question Institute and co-author of Partnering with Parents to Ask the Right Questions (ASCD, 2016) and Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions (Harvard Education Press, 2011).
She was most recently an adjunct lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation EAGER grant to improve doctoral students’ question-asking abilities.
Santana has spent 30 years advocating for students, parents, schools and low-income communities. She came to the U.S. mainland from Puerto Rico, and her experiences navigating the welfare system and other public institutions while earning an associate, bachelor’s and master’s degree — and raising a family — have shaped her approach to working across fields.
She is now a nationally recognized educational innovator, facilitator and keynote speaker in English and Spanish who has designed a wide range of participatory learning curricula in many fields, including parent engagement, adult education, social services, health care, immigrant advocacy, neighborhood organizing and voter engagement.