Director, Center for Rural Education
Virginia Tech, Virginia
Amy Price Azano, Director of the Virginia Tech Center for Rural Education, is an associate professor of rural education and adolescent literacy in the School of Education at Virginia Tech. She serves as principal investigator for multiple rural education grants, including the Appalachian Rural Talent Initiative and the Summer Enrichment Experience at Virginia Tech (SEE VT). A product of rural schools herself, Dr. Azano grew up in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and taught high school English and creative writing before pursuing her doctorate in education from the University of Virginia. Currently, Dr. Azano is the chair of the AERA’s Rural Education SIG and co-editor of The Rural Educator. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, is the co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Rural Education in the United States and Gifted Education in Rural Schools: Developing Place-Based Interventions and is the co-author of Teaching in Rural Places: Thriving in Classrooms, Schools, and Communities. She has been awarded the Brzezinski Award for career achievement in rural education research by the National Rural Education Association, named the Land Grant Scholar from Virginia Tech's College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, and recently won the Rural Renewal Research Prize from Oklahoma State University.
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Thursday, November 17, 2022
8:00 AM – 11:30 AM