Lilith Werner
Degree:	Ph.D., Cultural and Educational Policy Studies
Dissertation Title:	Neoliberalization and Democratization: Peripheral Ideological Concepts in the United States and Spanish Education
E-mail:	lilith99@sbcglobal.net

Education:

Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education, 2008
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL

M.Ed. in Administration & Supervision
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL

M.Ed. in Teaching & Learning, Secondary Social Science
DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Graduate work in Sociology
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL

B.S. in Sociology, Magna Cum Laude
Bradley University, Peoria, IL

Professional Experience:

Principal, DuPage County, IL

Bilingual/ELL Lead Teacher, Supplemental Educational Services Coordinator, and Reading Resource Coach, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, IL 

Volunteer, Immigrant and Refugee Program, Spanish Red Cross 

Upward Bound Instructor for Global Issues Course, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 

Marketing Coordinator for The Americas, International Correspondent Banking, Bank One Corporation

Research Interests:

Global Pressures, Contemporary National Educational Policy, and Local School Reform Initiatives in Spain and the U.S. (dissertation), AND Immigrant Children's Rights to an Education, AND the Effects of Neoliberal Economics on Education.

Publications and Awards:

Werner, L.C. 2008. The Dominican Republic. In The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide, (eds. I. Epstein and S. Lutjens, 135-160). Westport: Greenwood Press.

Guide for Foreigners. Castilla y Leon: Spanish Red Cross, (2005). English and Spanish versions.

Contributed to a 2005 Amicus Curie brief submitted to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Costa Rica) in support of a case represented by The International Human Rights Law Clinic at UC Berkeley Law School (See Dominican Republic Project link). Wrote about the benefits of education for citizenship.

2007 CIES New Scholar

4th Year Recipient of a Loyola Dissertation Fellowship

International Experience:

Spain (lived, worked, and studied); France (lived, worked, and studied); Argentina (lived and worked); Italy (studied); travel in England, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Andorra, Monaco, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania, Greece, Morocco, Egypt, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Mexico, Canada, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Hong Kong.

Languages:

Spanish (fluent); French (intermediate); working knowledge of Catalan and Portuguese.