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Doctoral Student
Email: ksoza@lamar.edu

Hometown

• Upland, California

Current Employment

• American Sign Language Teacher, Glendora High School 

• Adjunct Faculty, Mount San Antonio College 

Education

• Single Subject Teaching Credential, Alliant International University, 2020 

• M.A., Sign Language Education, Gallaudet University, 2018 

• B.A. Liberal Studies,  California State University Fullerton, 2005  
  

Research Interests

• Resilience in Deaf People 

• Deaf Studies 

• Sign Language Studies

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Buchanan, B., Pirone, J., Pudans-Smith, K., Leffler, B., Cohen, B., Simmons, P., Ballentine, P., Venable, T., & Soza, K. (2023). American Sign Language Level 1 Assessment: What is out there?. Foreign language Annals.  

Recent Non Peer-Reviewed Publications

• N/A

Recent Presentations

• N/A

Dissertation Focus

• TBA