Na'ilah Suad Nasir

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Na'ilah Suad Nasir is an educational researcher and the sixth president of the Spencer Foundation. [1] [2] She was president of the American Educational Research Association in 2021-22. Previously she held several named professorships, including the Birgeneau Chair in Educational Disparities and the H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African-American Studies at UC Berkeley, [3] where she also served as the vice-chancellor of equity and inclusion. [2] She has also taught as a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. [4]

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Education and career

Nasir earned her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley and PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. [2] Her academic career has focused on socio-cultural perspectives on education and advancing equitable school systems. [5] Nasir's work has resulted in the publication of over 30 scholarly articles [3] and several books.

Honors and awards

In 2017, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Education. [6] In 2022, she gave the convocation speech to the Northwestern School of Education and Social Policy. [4]

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References

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Cultural offices
Preceded by President of the

American Educational Research Association
2021-2022

Succeeded by