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Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr. is an award-winning scholar of race, racism, and education policy and practice. Dr. Henry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His interdisciplinary scholarship investigates the politics of education, specifically privatization in education such as school choice/market-based approaches to education. Dr. …
Christopher Saldaña is an assistant professor of K-12 educational leadership and policy analysis. Chris’s research examines the relationship between K-12 school finance and educational opportunity, focusing particularly on the educational experiences of minoritized and marginalized students. Chris uses multiple and mixed methods in his research. Education Select Publications Select Presentations
Frank Fernandez is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He teaches graduate courses on organizational theory and education finance. His work emphasizes higher education’s potential for promoting the public good through three strands of research. First, concerned with the role of higher education in society, especially in regard …
Krystal L. Williams, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. She is the Director and Principal Investigator of the Education Policy and Equity Research Collective (Ed_PERC), which explores issues regarding race and public policy with an emphasis on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and …
Dr. Francesca López is the Jim and Georgia Thompson Distinguished Professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Leadership Analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research centers on educational practices and policies that promote equity and belonging for historically marginalized students, particularly multilingual learners and students from racially and linguistically diverse backgrounds. She began …