Dr. Erika Mein is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the College of Education and Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Texas at El Paso. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in Reading/Writing/Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania. Her teaching and research focus on disciplinary literacies in secondary and postsecondary contexts, with a particular emphasis on the literacies and identity development of emergent bilingual and Latinx students.

• Ph D in Reading/Writing/Literacy, University of Pennsylvania (2007)
• BA in History, University of Virginia (1998)

• Building a high-quality rural teacher pipeline through a partnership-based residency and induction model Theory and Practice in Rural Education 14 2 (2024), Erika L. Mein, Patricia L. Ocana, Michele Gonzalez.
• Asset-based strategies for engagement and belonging at an open-access, research-intensive Hispanic-Serving Institution Routledge (2023), Erika L. Mein, Luis Rodriguez.
• Shifting Pre-Calculus from Gatekeeper to Gateway at a Hispanic-Serving Institution Mathematics Association of America MAA Notes 96 (2023), Elsa Y. Villa, Lawrence M. Lesser, Erika L. Mein.
• Identity and Persistence among Latinx Engineering Students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education (2022), Erika Mein, Lidia Herrera-Rocha.
• The uses of engineering notebooks among pre-engineering students at a Hispanic-Serving Institution Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 66 2 (2022), Erika L. Mein, Christina Convertino.

• Strengthening the Hispanic Teacher Pipeline through Region-Wide Partnerships (2022), Erika Mein, Joyce Asing-Cashman, Lidia Herrera-Rocha.
• Teacher Preparation for Emergent Bilinguals (2022), Erika Mein, Lidia Herrera-Rocha.
• Leveraging assets to overcome barriers: Latinx persistence in engineering/CS (2021), Volume Virtual, Erika L. Mein, Alberto Esquinca, Helena Mucino Guerra.
• University of Texas El Paso and El Paso Independent School District: Sustainable + Affordable Teacher Residency (2020), Volume Virtual, Clifton S. Tanabe, Erika L. Mein, Tamekia Brown.
• Community college-university partners in teacher preparation: EPCC and UTEP (2020), Volume Virtual, Erika L. Mein, Castanon-Williams Isela, Alyse Hachey, Joyce G. Asing Cashman, Haley Richardson.

• UTEP's Miner Teacher Residency and Mentorship Program: Providing High-Quality Preparation and Induction for Latinx Teachers to Serve Students of Color (US Department of Education TQP) (10/01/2022 - 09/30/2027) US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (FED)
• El Paso Math Instructional Systems and Teacher Workforce (02/01/2024 - 01/31/2027) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation/El Paso Community Foundation
• Augustus F. Hawkins Center of Excellence for Hispanic Teacher Preparation at UTEP: Strengthening the Hispanic Teacher Pipeline through Systems-Level Transformation (US Department of Education Hawkins Program) (01/01/2023 - 12/31/2026) U.S. Department of Education
• New Teacher Mentorship Pilot Program (El Paso Community Foundation) (06/01/2020 - 08/31/2025) El Paso Community Foundation
• Grow Your Own Teacher Preparation Program (El Paso Community Foundation) (07/01/2022 - 06/30/2025) El Paso Community Foundation
• University-School Partnerships for the Renewal of Teacher Preparation (US PREP/Gates Foundation) (12/01/2018 - 06/30/2024) Texas Tech University
• Raising Texas Teachers Partner Program (Charles Butt Foundation) (04/22/2021 - 12/31/2023) CHARLES BUTT FOUNDATION (FNDN)
• Broadening Participation in Engineering: A Qualitative Study of Latino/a Persistence in and Beyond the Degree (National Science Foundation) (09/01/2018 - 08/31/2021) National Science Foundation