Research Professor, Fellow, Director, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Iheoma U. Iruka, Ph.D., is a Research Professor in the Department of Public Policy and Director of theEarly Childhood Health and Racial Equity program at FPG Child Development Institute at UNC-CH afterher 3-plus years as Chief Research Innovation Officer at HighScope Educational Research...
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Associate Professor and Director of the Ecology of School Readiness LabnProgram Director for Child & Youth Policy Certificate, Boston University Wheelock College of Education
Stephanie M. Curenton, Ph.D. is a tenured associate professor in the Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She studies the social, cognitive, and language development of low-income and minority children within various ecological contexts, such as parent-child...
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Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Omaha
Dr. Escayg's research focuses on anti-racism in early childhood education as well as children and race. As a social theorist, Dr. Escayg has utilized elements of Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist Thought, and Anti-racist Education to offer new exegeses on children's racial identity...
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Clinical Associate Professor, Georgia State University
Tonia Durden, Ph.D. is a Clinical Associate Professor and Birth through 5 Program Coordinator within the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at Georgia State University. Dr. Durden’s primary scholarship and research trajectory focuses on exploring how to develop...
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