Education and Experience

Education

• 2001:  Ph.D., Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of California at Berkeley (Recipient of Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2001)
• 1997:  M.A., Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of California at Berkeley
• 1994:  Credential, Secondary English, Cross-cultural
  Language and Academic Development (CLAD) specialization, University of California at Berkeley
• 1993:  B.A., English, University of California at Santa Barbara

Experience

2007  Associate Director, Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access, UCLA

2005–Present  Assistant Professor, Urban Schooling Division, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Affiliated Faculty Member of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African-American Studies

2002–2004  Visiting Assistant Professor, (summers)  Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Urban Schooling Division, University of California, Los Angeles

2001–2005  Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University

Affiliated faculty member of the African-American and African Studies (AAAS) and Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures (WRAC) departments

2001–2004  Postdoctoral Fellow, American Educational Research Association

2001–2004 Faculty Fellow & Co-Director, Critical Research and Writing Seminar
Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access, University of California, Los Angeles

2000–2001  Research Associate, Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access, University of California, Los Angeles

1999–2001  Adjunct Faculty, Teacher Education, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles

1999–2000  Research Associate, Center X, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles

1999–2001  Coordinator of Teacher Recruitment, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles

1998–1999  Supervisor of Student Teaching, University of San Francisco

1997–1999 Instructor, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley

1997  College Writing Instructor, University of California, Berkeley

1996–1999 Research Associate, Graduate School of Education
University of California, Berkeley

1994–1999 Secondary English Teacher, Oakland High School, Oakland, California