Donna Y. Ford
Donna Y. Ford is a Distinguished Professor within the college specializing in special education. In addition to her faculty role in the college at Ohio State, she is also a faculty affiliate at Ohio State’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Center for Latin American Studies.
She is known for her research about gifted education and culturally responsive, multicultural, urban education. Specifically, her work focuses on (1) the achievement gap, (2) recruiting and retaining culturally different students into gifted education, (3) multicultural curriculum and instruction, (4) culturally competent teacher training and development, (5) African American identity and (6) African American family involvement in children’s schooling.
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Daniel G. Solórzano
Daniel G. Solórzano is a Professor in the Departments of Education and Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he also serves as Director of the Center for Critical Race Studies in Education. An interdisciplinary scholar, Solórzano’s work centers on Critical Race Theory, Racial Microaggressions an Microaffirmations, and Critical Race Spatial Analysis in Education.
He is the co-author of Racial Microaggressions: Using Critical Race Theory to Respond to Everyday Racism (2020, with Lindsay Pérez Huber), which examines how People of Color experience and respond to everyday racism. He also co-edited the award-winning anthology The Chicana/o Education Pipeline: History, Institutional Critique, and Resistance (2018, with Michaela Mares-Tamayo), a comprehensive reflection on 45 years of educational research in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies.
Fred A. Bonner
Fred A. Bonner II, Ed.D. is the Founding Executive Director and Chief Social Scientist at the Achievement, Research, Creativity and High-Ability (ARCH-III) Center at Prairie View A&;M University, Texas’ largest HBCU. Dr. Bonner is the Founding Chief Editor for the Journal of Minority Achievement, Creativity and Leadership (JMACL), published by the Penn State University Press.
He has expertise and research focus involving academically gifted Black males, Black faculty in the academy, diverse faculty, Minorities in STEM and college student development, Dr. Bonner is the author of “Building on Resilience: Models and Frameworks of Black Male Success Across the P-20 Pipeline,” highlighting the experiences of academically gifted Black males from preschool through post-college.
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Venus E. Evans-Winters
Venus E. Evans-Winters is Professor and Director of Ph.D. Program at the University of San Diego, in the School of Leadership & Education Sciences. She is also a clinical psychotherapist and internationally recognized scholar of education, race, and gender justice. Her work is rooted in Black feminist/womanist thought, critical race theory, and healing-centered approaches to research, teaching, and community engagement. As author of Black Feminism in Qualitative Inquiry and Teaching Black Girls: Resilience in Urban Classrooms, and co-author of Intersectional Qualitative Research, she explores education as a liberatory and embodied practice grounded in ancestral wisdom, cultural traditions, and spiritual knowledge.
Her scholarship affirms that learning is not only cognitive, but also historical, emotional, and political. As the host of the podcast "Writing What I Like: Fieldnotes of a Black Woman Scholar," she fosters dialogue at the intersection of education, mental health, and social transformation.
