Costanza Eggers-Pierola currently works with the Center for Children & Families at the Education Development Center and is a 2004 Schott Fellowship in Early Care and Education recipient. Dr. Eggers-Pierola has 25 years of experience as a teacher, researcher, developer, and educational consultant, and maintains a continuing focus on bilingual and immigrant children, families, and communities. She coauthored Through My Own Eyes: Single Mothers and the Cultures of Poverty (Harvard University Press, 2001).