Collective Scholars

Assistant Professor of Urban Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Alexandra Aylward, Ph.D., is a research scientist in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Brenda Barrio is Associate Professor of Special Education (Critical Perspectives) at the University of North Texas

Maggie Beneke is an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Washington.

Dr. Mildred Boveda is Associate Professor of Education at the Pennsylvania State University.

María Cioè-Peña earned her PhD in Urban Education from The Graduate Center - City University of New York, where she was also an Advance Research Collaborative and Presidential MAGNET Fellow.

North Cooc is an associate professor of special education and core faculty member in the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin.

Dr. Rebecca A Cruz is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Innovative Teaching and Leadership, with a joint appointment in the Center for Safe and Healthy Schools.

As a sociologist of education, Dr. Rachel Fish studies the racialized and gendered constructions of disability and giftedness, how these processes are shaped by school context, and how they relate to educational inequality.

Jaret Hodges is an Assistant Professor in Gifted Education at the University of North Texas. His research interests are in policy, equity, and rurality in gifted education.

Dr. Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides is Assistant Professor of Special Education at the City University of New York (CUNY)—Hunter College.

Dr. Michela Musto, a white, queer, and non-binary person, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia.

Lilly B. Padía was raised in an interfaith, Russian-Jewish, white and Mexican American family in a predominantly Black city.

Dr. Pearson (any pronouns) has worked as a contingent Assistant Professor faculty in higher education teaching a variety of sociology and education courses around diversity, disability, social-spatial justice, and mental health.

Jennifer Phuong, Ph.D., is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at Swarthmore College.

Allison Roda Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Education in Molloy College's Educational Leadership for Diverse Learning Communities, Ed.D. program.

Jennifer Flores Samson is Associate Professor of Special Education at Hunter College.

Dara Shifrer is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Portland State University.

Dr. Natasha Strassfeld is an Assistant Professor of Special Education in the Department of Special Education at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Adai Tefera (she/her) currently serves as an assistant professor of special education at the University of Arizona's College of Education.