Tolani Britton uses quasi-experimental methods to explore the impact of policies on students’ transition from secondary school to higher education, as well as access and retention in higher education. Recent work explores the relationship between dual enrollment and student outcomes and the postsecondary educational trajectories of students with conviction histories.
Prior to earning her doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Quantitative Policy Analysis in Education, Professor Britton worked as a high school math teacher and college counselor in New York City...
Dr. Pardos is an Associate Professor of Education at UC Berkeley studying adaptive learning and AI. His current research focuses on knowledge representation and recommender systems approaches to increasing upward mobility in postsecondary education using behavioral and semantic data.
He earned his PhD in Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a dissertation on computational models of cognitive mastery. Funded by a National Science Foundation Fellowship (GK-12), he spent extensive time with K-12 educators and students working to integrate educational technology into...
Emily Reich (she/her) is a third-year doctoral student in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster at UC Berkeley's School of Education. Her research examines how bureaucracy and educational policy unfold on the ground for marginalized and minoritized students and the school systems and staff who serve them.
Prior to Berkeley, Emily taught Special Education in California and Israel. She holds a B.S. in Special Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Emily's dissertation investigates the replacement of the Palestinian National Authority curriculum with Israeli...
Jose Eos Trinidad is an Assistant Professor of Education and Organizational Studies at the University of California Berkeley. He is a sociologist focused on the study of organizations outside schools and the study of schools as organizations. He received his Joint PhD in Sociology and Comparative Human Development from the University of Chicago.
Janelle Scott (she/her) is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the School of Education and African American Studies Department. She holds the Robert J. and Mary Catherine Birgeneau Distinguished Chair in Educational Disparities, and is the Chair of the Race, Diversity, and Educational Policy Cluster of the Othering and Belonging Institute. She is the Associate Dean for Students in the College of Letters and Science. Scott earned a PhD in Education Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and a BA in...
Travis J. Bristol is an associate professor of teacher education and education policy in Berkeley’s School of Education and (by courtesy) the Department of African American Studies. He is also the faculty director of the Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity. Before joining Berkeley's faculty, he was a Peter Paul Assistant Professor at Boston University. Using qualitative methods, Dr. Bristol explores three...
Thong Minh Trinh is a Berkeley Fellow and PhD student in Education at the University of California, Berkeley. His research sits at the intersection of higher education policy and finance, with particular emphasis on financial aid and student loan programs. Using quantitative methods and quasi-experimental designs, he examines how institutional finances and student-facing policies shape college access, choice, and student outcomes in the United States and internationally.
Thong's recent scholarship spans higher education finance and student decision-making in the United States,...
Zeus Leonardo has published numerous articles and book chapters on critical social thought in education. His articles have appeared in Educational Researcher; Race, Ethnicity, and Education; Teachers College Record; and Educational Philosophy and Theory. Some of his essays include: "Critical Social Theory and Transformative Knowledge," "The Souls of White Folk," "The Color of Supremacy," "Schooling in Racist America," "Smartness as Property" (with Alicia Broderick), and "Dis-orienting Western Knowledge." His most recent books are Edward Said and...
Julián G. Ángel (He/Él/Leti’) is a Chancellor Fellow and PhD student in Policy, Politics, and Leadership in the Berkeley School of Education. Born and raised in New Mexico, Julián found his passion for public education, civic engagement, and community-engaged research in the rich farming community of Hatch. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Chicana and Chicano Studies, specializing in Intersectional Politics and Social Movements, from The University of New Mexico (UNM). Julián's journey through higher education is a testament to the transformative influence of public education and the...
Vo Ram Yoon (him/his) is a doctoral student in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster at the Berkeley School of Education. Ethnically Korean and raised in Bolivia, his passion for advancing social justice and equity in education have been shaped by his international upbringing and witnessing how privilege and marginalization manifest in education from the classrooms of Chicago Public Schools to the private English academies in Tokyo. His research interests include the impact of EdTech on K-12 schools, the racialization of AAPI students, and the relationship between schools and the...
