Dr. Bang’s research interest includes multicultural school counseling, career development of minority populations, and school-family community
collaboration.

Dr. Yoder is interested in issues of equity and educational change in mathematics and language education as they relate to pedagogy, policy, and teacher education.

Ms. Croom has spent the past 20 years as a public school teacher in both North Carolina and Illinois. It is her passion to now teach future teachers the skills necessary to be successful in the classroom.

Dr. Gill has been teaching in higher education for over 10 years, the past 3 years as Assistant Clinical Professor of Social Studies and Teacher Education at IUPUI. Her passion is developing curriculum and teaching interns to do the same with authentic learning tasks and critical thinking.

Dr. Greene earned a doctorate degree in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research interests include students' development with respect to literacy and cultural identity.

Dr. Hall is an interdisciplinary community-engaged scholar whose research intersects Education, Africana Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Media.

Dr. Hayes’s research interest includes the use of Critical Race Theory in Education, Historical and Contemporary Issues in Black Education to include the school to prison pipeline, Teaching and Learning in the Latino Community, Whiteness and the Intersections of Sexuality and Race.

Dr. Jackson has been a professional educator for over 26 years. Prior to joining the academy, she was an elementary teacher and taught first, second, and third grades. As a teacher educator, she drew upon her own classroom teaching experiences focusing on the complexities of teaching diverse learners and attending to social justice issues pertaining to the marginalization of children in U.S. schools.

Dr. Kazembe is an Assistant Professor in IUPUI's School of Education (Dept. of Urban Teacher Education) and in the Africana Studies Program. He is a scholar of Urban Education, Global Black Arts Movements, and the Black Intellectual Tradition.

Dr. Thorius' research is concerned with educational access, participation, and outcomes for students, with particular attention to the ways in which systemic factors, including educational policy and educators practices, converge in classrooms to shape the experiences of underrepresented students, including those identified with disabilities.

Dr. Magee has a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the City University of New York. After a postdoctoral position at Eli Lilly & Co, Dr. Magee earned her Indiana teaching license at IUPUI. She is currently a Clinical Professor in Science Education.

Dr. Medina's professional interests center on urban schools, specifically the damaging effects of poverty, that disadvantage, disenfranchised and dispossess students, their families, and the community.

Dr. Morton is an Associate Professor of Math Education. Her scholarly work focuses on secondary math education with an emphasis on the role of informal STEM learning in fostering equitable and transformative learning experiences for Black girls.

As clinical professor in the Educational Leadership Program, Dr. Murphy teaches courses in educational leadership and evaluation. His research interests include school improvement, teacher evaluation, special education, and school effectiveness.

Thu Sương Nguyễn is an associate professor of Urban Education Leadership & Policy and currently serves as department chair. The daughter of Vietnamese refugees, her scholarly interests include critical management studies and vulnerable communities.

Dr. Price's research and teaching focus on supporting the development of purposeful practices based in critical reflection with technology to support good and just teaching by preservice and inservice teachers.

Dr. Cristina Santamaría Graff is an Associate Professor of Special Education, Urban Teacher Education. She has expertise in bilingual/multicultural special education and applies her skills in working with families of children with disabilities.

Dr. Jim Scheurich is an anti-racist, community activist scholar committed to addressing the institutional and systemic inequities and injustices in educational and community contexts. His scholarly interests include anti-racism, equity, and inclusion in schools and communities and qualitative research epistemologies and methodologies.

Ms. Scribner is an Associate Professor and the Director of Urban Educational Leadership & Policy Program. Her research focuses on organizational politics of urban school leadership, particularly in Latinx school communities.

Teresa Sosa is an Associate Professor of Urban Teacher Education with a focus in literacy education at IUPUI. Sosa has been recently appointed Director of Equity Education in the Office of Academic Affairs (Aug. 1, 2022).

Dr. Taylor is a former elementary teacher, literacy coach and curriculum designer. She taught middle school literacy and social studies in Chicago Public Schools for seven years.

Dr. Teemant's research and teaching focus on preparing K12 teachers to work with multilingual learners. Under this umbrella, she has published on innovative program development, urban English as a New Language teacher preparation, and pedagogical coaching.

In general, Dr. Chalmer studies and develops theory about the psychological impacts of racism on people. More specifically, she studies and tries to help promote the ability of people to create the kind of change that is necessary in developing genuine, positive mental health and a more just society.

Dr. Willey's research focuses on all aspects of mathematics teaching and learning with Latinas/os through the framework of mathematics and language socialization processes, or Mathematics Discourse Communities.