Erika Abarca Millán
Senior Research Associate with NYU Metro Center's Policy, Research, and Evaluation (PRE)
Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools
Erika Abarca Millán is a Senior Research Associate with the Policy, Research and Evaluation (PRE) team at the NYU Metro. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, she has addressed issues regarding equitable access to higher education, teacher and student identity, second/heritage language acquisition/education, among others. She has worked as a project manager for both small- and large-scale studies, including her work as a project manager for a regional study conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). She has an MA in Applied Second Language Acquisition from Carnegie Mellon University (2014) and a PhD in Education from the University of Pittsburgh (2020). She is originally from Santiago, Chile.
Selected Publications
- Abarca Millán, E. (Ed.) (2025). Amplifying student and youth voices in educational research. Vernon Press. https://vernonpress.com/book/2251
- Abarca Millán, E., Zambrano, M. V., Bahamondes, R. (2025). "I felt like I wasn't from this planet" - Amplifying neurodiverse students' voices in higher education: A case study in Amplifying student and youth voices in educational research, (E. Abarca Millan, Ed). Vernon Press.
- Fernández, L., Abarca Millán, E., Flores, A. (2025). Exploring Latinx students' mentoring experiences, bicultural identities, and responses to societal shifts in Amplifying student and youth voices in educational research, (E. Abarca Millan, Ed). Vernon Press.
- Elacqua, G., Pérez-Nuñez, G., Abarca, E., Etcheverry, L., (2024). Diversidad y brechas de representación en la fuerza laboral escolar de Latinoamérica y el Caribe [Diversity and representation gaps in the school workforce in Latin America and the Caribbean]. Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Division Educación. https://publications.iadb.org/es/publications/spanish/viewer/Diversidad-y-brechas-de-representacionen-la-fuerza-laboral-escolar-de-Latinoamerica-y-el-Caribe.pdf
- Bolaños Zárate, F., Abarca Millán, E. y García Bobadilla, A. (2024) ¿Qué son las habilidades digitales? Análisis de las representaciones de docentes sobre lo que argumentan son las habilidades digitales en el contexto de un taller de desarrollo profesional de la iniciativa aRPa [What are digital skills? Analysis of the representations that teachers make of what they argue are digital skills in the context of a professional development workshop of the aRPa initiative] https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/200451
- Abarca Millán, E., Alvarado Vargas, C., Arriagada, S., & Cabello, P. (2024) Searching for a middle ground: Teachers’ identities and perception on the teaching and learning of writing. Teaching and Teacher Education Journal, 138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104383
- Alvarado, C., Saadati, F. & Abarca Millán, E. (2023) Desarrollando la escritura de estudiantes: El potencial de una metodología colaborativa basada en la resolución de problemas [Developing students’ writing: The potential of collaborative problem-solving methodology]. Revista de Investigación Educativa 43(1), 143-166. https://doi.org/10.6018/rie.517231
- Saadati, F., Abarca Millán, E., & Fuenzalida, N. (2022) “The meal is served, but who are we serving it to?” Challenges in a Math professional development program during COVID-19 and the strategies developed to address them. Professional development in Education. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19415257.2022.2125550
- Bahamondes, R. & Abarca Millán, E. (2021) First-year students’ experience in higher education in Chile in times of Covid-19. Planning and Changing. Special Issue. 50(3/4):209-235. https://education.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/planning/Planning-Changing%2050-3- 4_article%206_Rosa_Bahamondes_Rivera.pdf
- Abarca Millán, E. (2021) Learning from Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Critical Discourse Analysis: Informing and successfully impacting Foreign Language Teaching. Contingencies, A Journal of Global Pedagogy, NYU.1(1) https://doi.org/10.33682/eeym-xanb
- Abarca Millán, E. (2016) ¡Quién fuera noche para caerle encima! piropos in Chile: Sexual harassment or flirtation? Sociolinguistic Studies 07/2016; 10(4):509-527., DOI:10.1558/sols.26731