Dr. Angie Zapata, associate professor of Language and Literacies Education at the University of Missouri, is a longtime teacher, teacher educator and researcher. Her research and teaching contributions have been recognized as a recipient of the Early Career Research Award from the National Council of Teachers of English Children’s Literature Assembly and the National Council of Research in Language and Literacies Mid-Career Scholar and as the 2024 National Council of Teachers of English Elementary Educator and the Early Childhood Teacher Educator awardee.

Primary Investigator, Family, Community, and Emergent Literacy Birth-K | Comprehensive Literacy State Development Program | U.S. Department of Education