Designing Learning for Equity

Na’ilah Suad Nasir is the Birgeneau Chair in Educational Disparities in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley where she holds a joint appointment in the African American Studies Department. Her program of research focuses on issues of race, culture, and schooling. She is the author of Racialized Identities: Race and achievement for African-American youth, published by Stanford University Press, and Teaching Mathematics for Equity: A Framework for Successful Practice, published by Teacher’s College Press. She has also published over 30 articles in scholarly journals. She received a teaching award from the African American Student Development Office in 2011, and she strives to integrate her scholarly work with her commitment to community and engaged scholarship.

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