Doctoral Student
Email: ckoo@lamar.edu 

Hometown

• Austin, Texas

Current Employment

• Tutoring Specialist/Adjunct Professor/Registration Liaison, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas
• American Sign Language Instructor for CSD Works and Texas Railroad Commission 

Education

• M.S. in Secondary Education of Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2000
• BFA in Interior Design, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1998

Research Interests

• Language Deprivation/Delay
• Deaf Mental Health
• Deaf Critical Race Theory
• Deaf Women's Leadership

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Greene-Woods, A., Delgado, N. J., Buchanan, B., Sides, M., Behmanesh, A. A., Cheslik, B., Koo, C. K., & Clark, M. D. (2020). Deaf cultural capital and its conflicts with hearingculture: Navigational successes and failures. JADARA, 54(1), 15-30. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/jadara/vol54/iss1/2

Recent Non Peer-Reviewed Publications

• N/A

Recent Presentations

• Koo, C. (2019, June). Social justice in classrooms – How do we get started as educators? Presented at National Deaf Education Conference (NDEC), Austin, TX.

Dissertation Focus

• Language Deprivation/Delay and Deaf Mental Health