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Subini Ancy Annamma
Co-Chair
Subini Ancy Annamma Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas. Before her doctoral studies, she was a special education teacher in both public schools and youth prisons. All of her research in the academy focuses on increasing access to equitable education for multiply-marginalized communities. She critically examines the mutually constitutive nature of racism and ableism, how they interlock with other marginalizing oppressions, and how these intersections impact education in urban schools, youth prisons, and teacher education. Dr. Annamma’s book, The Pedagogy of Pathologization (Routledge, 2018) focuses on the education trajectories of incarcerated disabled girls of color. She is also a Ford Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2018-19 school year hosted at UCLA.
Co-Chair
Subini Ancy Annamma Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas. Before her doctoral studies, she was a special education teacher in both public schools and youth prisons. All of her research in the academy focuses on increasing access to equitable education for multiply-marginalized communities. She critically examines the mutually constitutive nature of racism and ableism, how they interlock with other marginalizing oppressions, and how these intersections impact education in urban schools, youth prisons, and teacher education. Dr. Annamma’s book, The Pedagogy of Pathologization (Routledge, 2018) focuses on the education trajectories of incarcerated disabled girls of color. She is also a Ford Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2018-19 school year hosted at UCLA.
Tanja Burkhard
Fiscal Co-Chair
Tanja Burkhard is a Postdoctoral Associate in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Tanja’s research agenda examines the intersections of language/literacy, racialization and immigration through a women of color feminist, anticolonial lens. These focal areas emerged from her experiences as a foreign language and English as a Second Language instructor in Germany, Turkey, and the United States. Her most recent work examines the methodological implications of working with immigrant, undocumented and refugee populations for qualitative educational research.
Fiscal Co-Chair
Tanja Burkhard is a Postdoctoral Associate in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Tanja’s research agenda examines the intersections of language/literacy, racialization and immigration through a women of color feminist, anticolonial lens. These focal areas emerged from her experiences as a foreign language and English as a Second Language instructor in Germany, Turkey, and the United States. Her most recent work examines the methodological implications of working with immigrant, undocumented and refugee populations for qualitative educational research.
Alison Dover
Communications Co-Chair
Alison G. Dover is a first generation college graduate, a former high school teacher, and an Associate Professor in the Secondary Education Department at California State University, Fullerton. She's been a member of CESJ since 2010. Alison’s research examines social justice-oriented teacher agency in K-12 and teacher education contexts, with an emphasis on curricular, pedagogical, and activist responses to unjust and restrictive policies. Her recent publications include Preparing to Teach Social Studies for Social Justice: Becoming a Renegade (2016, Teachers College Press),and articles in Teaching and Teacher Education,The Educational Forum, English Journal, and Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. Contact Alison at adover@fullerton.edu
Communications Co-Chair
Alison G. Dover is a first generation college graduate, a former high school teacher, and an Associate Professor in the Secondary Education Department at California State University, Fullerton. She's been a member of CESJ since 2010. Alison’s research examines social justice-oriented teacher agency in K-12 and teacher education contexts, with an emphasis on curricular, pedagogical, and activist responses to unjust and restrictive policies. Her recent publications include Preparing to Teach Social Studies for Social Justice: Becoming a Renegade (2016, Teachers College Press),and articles in Teaching and Teacher Education,The Educational Forum, English Journal, and Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. Contact Alison at adover@fullerton.edu
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Nini Hayes
Program Co-Chair Nini Hayes is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Education and affiliated faculty for the Education for Social Justice program at Western Washington University. Their teaching, learning, and research is centered on equity, justice in education, and the laboring of critical and justice-centered faculty of color, their work both within and beyond the academy. Prior to graduate school, they were a former fifth grade teacher and environmental educator. They have been both a participant and planner for both the CESJ Graduate Student Forum and Early Career Scholars Forum and look forward to AERA 2019 in Toronto. |
Denisha Jones
Communications Co-Chair
Denisha Jones is an Assistant Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Trinity Washington University. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Indiana University in 2013. Dr. Jones began as a kindergarten teacher and then a preschool director before spending the last 12 years in teacher education. Six years ago Dr. Jones became active in the fight to stop the corporate takeover of public education, organizing and speaking at numerous rallies, marches, and conferences. Determined to be a more effective advocate, she began law school as a part-time student in 2014 at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and expects to graduate in May 2018. She is a board member and administrator for the Badass Teachers Association, Inc., United Opt Out National; and she is on the advisory board of Defending the Early Years. Her research interests include developing critical consciousness in pre-service teachers, organizing activist research projects that challenge the privatization of public education, and leveraging the intersection of public policy, social movement lawyering, and critical social justice education to dismantle the neoliberal assault on public education.
Communications Co-Chair
Denisha Jones is an Assistant Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Trinity Washington University. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Indiana University in 2013. Dr. Jones began as a kindergarten teacher and then a preschool director before spending the last 12 years in teacher education. Six years ago Dr. Jones became active in the fight to stop the corporate takeover of public education, organizing and speaking at numerous rallies, marches, and conferences. Determined to be a more effective advocate, she began law school as a part-time student in 2014 at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and expects to graduate in May 2018. She is a board member and administrator for the Badass Teachers Association, Inc., United Opt Out National; and she is on the advisory board of Defending the Early Years. Her research interests include developing critical consciousness in pre-service teachers, organizing activist research projects that challenge the privatization of public education, and leveraging the intersection of public policy, social movement lawyering, and critical social justice education to dismantle the neoliberal assault on public education.
Sosanya Jones
Fiscal Co-Chair
Sosanya Jones is an assistant professor of Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Howard University. She currently serves as a member the Financial Accountability and Equity Working Group for The Educational Trust. Sosanya created a student centered Diversity Symposium which featured student proposals for addressing equity and inclusion for different populations at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She also volunteered for The Rainbow Cafe of Southern Illinois, a safe space and social/support group for high school age gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth in Southern Illinois. Sosanya’s research interests include governmental policies and practices related to equity and access, the politics of campus diversity, and creating better support, training, and contemplative practice for diversity professionals in higher education.
Fiscal Co-Chair
Sosanya Jones is an assistant professor of Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Howard University. She currently serves as a member the Financial Accountability and Equity Working Group for The Educational Trust. Sosanya created a student centered Diversity Symposium which featured student proposals for addressing equity and inclusion for different populations at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She also volunteered for The Rainbow Cafe of Southern Illinois, a safe space and social/support group for high school age gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth in Southern Illinois. Sosanya’s research interests include governmental policies and practices related to equity and access, the politics of campus diversity, and creating better support, training, and contemplative practice for diversity professionals in higher education.
Kari Kokka
Co-Chair
Kari Kokka is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She studies Social Justice Mathematics, STEM teacher activism, and retention of STEM teachers of color in urban schools. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a math teacher for 11 years in Title I public high schools. Kari completed her doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and earned her M.A. and B.S. at Stanford University. She is co-founder of the Creating Balance in an Unjust World Conference on STEM Education and Social Justice and a core member of the People’s Education Movement Bay Area.
Co-Chair
Kari Kokka is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She studies Social Justice Mathematics, STEM teacher activism, and retention of STEM teachers of color in urban schools. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was a math teacher for 11 years in Title I public high schools. Kari completed her doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and earned her M.A. and B.S. at Stanford University. She is co-founder of the Creating Balance in an Unjust World Conference on STEM Education and Social Justice and a core member of the People’s Education Movement Bay Area.
Oscar Navarro
Program Co-Chair
Oscar Navarro is an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. His experience as a high school teacher in South Central Los Angeles and involvement in the People’s Education Movement inform his scholarship on improving the teaching and learning for students of Color in secondary schools. Oscar is also a Faculty Associate for Cal Poly's Office of University Diversity and Inclusion and a steering committee member for the Central Coast Coalition for Undocumented Student Success. He has participated in CESJ's Graduate Student Forum and Early Career Scholar Forum and excited about joining the board.
Program Co-Chair
Oscar Navarro is an Assistant Professor of Secondary Education at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. His experience as a high school teacher in South Central Los Angeles and involvement in the People’s Education Movement inform his scholarship on improving the teaching and learning for students of Color in secondary schools. Oscar is also a Faculty Associate for Cal Poly's Office of University Diversity and Inclusion and a steering committee member for the Central Coast Coalition for Undocumented Student Success. He has participated in CESJ's Graduate Student Forum and Early Career Scholar Forum and excited about joining the board.
Malayka Neith Cornejo
Graduate Student Representative
Malayka Neith Cornejo, a fourth year Ph.D. student in Teaching & Learning at UNLV, serves as educational technologist for UNLV’s Office of Online Education, adjunct faculty, and program coordinator of the Spanish Language, Culture, and Literacy Advanced Graduate Studies Certificate Program at Touro University Nevada. As a former PK-12 teacher & administrator, Malayka’s research centers on multicultural education, responsive teacher preparation, alternative disciplinary practices, girls of color, school pushout, juvenile adjudication, historical trauma, holistic healing, restorative justice, cultural reproduction, and resistance movements. In addition to co-organizing the CESJ graduate student forum (GSF) for the past three years; Malayka organizes with the Paulo Freire SIG, with Teachers for Social Justice, Las Vegas, and with Youth Escape Arena, Inc., a D.C. based non-profit for at-promise youth, as the National Director of Alternative Practices.
Graduate Student Representative
Malayka Neith Cornejo, a fourth year Ph.D. student in Teaching & Learning at UNLV, serves as educational technologist for UNLV’s Office of Online Education, adjunct faculty, and program coordinator of the Spanish Language, Culture, and Literacy Advanced Graduate Studies Certificate Program at Touro University Nevada. As a former PK-12 teacher & administrator, Malayka’s research centers on multicultural education, responsive teacher preparation, alternative disciplinary practices, girls of color, school pushout, juvenile adjudication, historical trauma, holistic healing, restorative justice, cultural reproduction, and resistance movements. In addition to co-organizing the CESJ graduate student forum (GSF) for the past three years; Malayka organizes with the Paulo Freire SIG, with Teachers for Social Justice, Las Vegas, and with Youth Escape Arena, Inc., a D.C. based non-profit for at-promise youth, as the National Director of Alternative Practices.
Many thanks to past Board members for their hard work and dedication!