Understanding the Paradoxes of Equity:
The Case of Race and Disability Intersections

Alfredo J. Artiles is associate dean and Ryan C. Harris Professor of Special Education at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teacher’s College. His scholarship focuses on understanding and addressing educational inequities related to the intersections of disability with other sociocultural differences. His work aims to advance policies, personnel preparation programs, and inclusive educational systems in diverse contexts. He directs the Equity Alliance and co-edits the International Multilingual Research Journal and the Teachers College Press book series Disability, Culture, & Equity. He was a vice president of the American Educational Research Association (2009–2011). Artiles is an AERA Fellow, and was a Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow (1998) and a Resident Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2008–2009). He received the 2012 Palmer O. Johnson Award for best article published in an AERA journal.

Artiles has held visiting professorships at Leibniz University (Germany), the University of Göteborgs (Sweden), the University of Birmingham (UK), and Universidad Rafael Landívar (Guatemala). He serves on President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics and is the co-editor of Inclusive education: Examining equity on five continents (Harvard Education Press). 

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