Dr. Bang’s research interest includes multicultural school counseling, career development of minority populations, and school-family community collaboration.

Dr. Sara Bangert is a clinical assistant professor in the Urban Teacher Education department at Indiana University Indianapolis and serves as program coordinator for the Early Childhood Education program.

Taylor is a former classroom teacher whose research interests include cultivating critical consciousness, whiteness, and teacher education. She is passionate for all aspects of justice-oriented pedagogy but is particularly drawn to literacy methods.

Dr. Brown serves as the Director of IU Indianapolis' Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). Her research interests include faculty learning and development, college student development, and promoting inclusive pedagogies in higher education.

Marella Croom is an experienced elementary education teacher who served in that role for 20 years before transitioning to higher education. Professor Croom works with undergraduate and graduate students specializing in elementary mathematics.

Dr. Samantha Franklin has been a professional educator for over 22 years in K-12 and higher education settings. Her research and passions lie in the areas of social justice, equity, and advocacy through the school counseling lens.

Dr. Brittany Garvin is an Assistant Professor of Science Education in the Department of Urban Teacher Education at the IU School of Education in Indianapolis.

This is my 38th year of teaching; spanning Kindergarten through graduate courses in Urban Teacher Education. I also coordinate elementary student teaching experiences and coach student teachers and coaches.

Michelle C.S. Greene, Ph.D. is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Urban Teacher Education Department. Her work focuses on pedagogy and practices to best empower and support culturally and linguistically diverse students and their families.

Dr. Ted Hall is the assistant dean for student support and diversity and a clinical associate professor in the departments of Urban Teacher Education and Africana Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis. He received his Ph.D. at the Michigan State University in Learning, Technology and Culture and has taught at several universities in the United States and Asia, including Martin University, Indiana University Bloomington, The Ohio State University, and Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. His primary research interests include the interface between culture, cognition, and epistemic knowledge.  

Dr. Hayes’s research interest includes the use of Critical Race Theory in Education, Historical and Contemporary Issues in Black Education to include the school to prison pipeline, Teaching and Learning in the Latino Community, Whiteness and the Intersections of Sexuality and Race.

Dr. Jackson has been a professional educator for over 27 years. Prior to joining the academy, she was an elementary teacher and taught first, second, and third grades. As a teacher educator, she drew upon her own classroom teaching experiences focusing on the complexities of teaching diverse learners and attending to social justice issues pertaining to the marginalization of children in U.S. schools.

Dr. Kazembe is a poet, educator, and critical Black scholar whose work examines culture, race, history, education, and the arts.

Dr. Magee has a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the City University of New York. After a postdoctoral position at Eli Lilly & Co, Dr. Magee earned her Indiana teaching license at IU Indianapolis. She is currently a Clinical Professor in Science Education.

Brendan Maxcy is an Associate Professor of Urban Education Leadership and Policy. From 2017 to 2022, he served as Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Development and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. He studies leader responses to education reform policies with particular attention to equity effects, leadership distribution, and political dynamics. He served as co-principal investigator for two federally-funded projects, the Great Lakes Equity Center (2011-16) and the Community Self-Empowerment Program (2013-2016). His work is published in Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Management, Administration & Leadership, Educational Policy, The Peabody Journal of Education, Remedial and Special Education, and Urban Education. He has presented his work in the U.S., Canada, Russia, Scotland, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Dr. Medina's professional interests center on urban schools, specifically the damaging effects of poverty, that disadvantage, disenfranchised and dispossess students, their families, and the community.

Dr. Morton is an Associate Professor of Math Education. Her scholarly work focuses on secondary math education with an emphasis on the role of informal STEM learning in fostering equitable and transformative learning experiences for Black girls.

As clinical professor in the Educational Leadership Program, Dr. Murphy teaches courses in educational leadership and evaluation. His research interests include school improvement, teacher evaluation, special education, and school effectiveness.

Dr. Murtadha is a mother and grandmother. Her PhD is in Educational Leadership from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. She has taught in many settings including a preschool, an elementary school, middle school science, undergraduate and graduate classes. She currently teaches in the School of Education’s Urban Leadership program.  Murtadha is the editor of Indiana University’s first journal dedicated to community engaged and community based participatory research. Her commitment to issues of art and culture led to the development of IU’s Africana Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.I.). Her research is attentive to African American women committed to social justice educational leadership; and the ethics of community-university engagement.

David teaches and researches in areas of education law and policy and is an assistant professor of Urban Education Leadership and Policy and adjunct professor of law at IU Indianapolis.

Thu Sương Nguyễn is an associate professor of Urban Education Leadership & Policy and currently serves as department chair. The daughter of Vietnamese refugees, her scholarly interests include critical management studies and vulnerable communities.

Dr. Tina O'Neal, a former special education teacher and consultant in Detroit, now teaches urban education and researches inclusive teaching methods and assistive technology. She also leads the SOE study abroad program in Ghana.

Dr. Jeremy Price focuses on collaborating with students, educators, and communities to plan, facilitate, and evaluate
just and equitable learning environments for each learner, particularly those who represent marginalized identities and
communities.

Dr. Cristina Santamaría Graff is an Associate Professor of Special Education, Urban Teacher Education. She has expertise in bilingual/multicultural special education and applies her skills in working with families of children with disabilities.

Dr. Jim Scheurich is an anti-racist, community activist scholar committed to addressing the institutional and systemic inequities and injustices in educational and community contexts. His scholarly interests include anti-racism, equity, and inclusion in schools and communities and qualitative research epistemologies and methodologies.

I am an educational researcher specializing in qualitative inquiry. I am co-PI on the US DoE NPD grant funded initiative, Project CELEBRATE. I am the current President of Indiana TESOL. I am an Alumni Ambassador for English Language Programs.

Teresa Sosa is an Associate Professor of Urban Teacher Education with a focus in literacy education at IU Indianapolis. Sosa has been recently appointed Director of Equity Education in the Office of Academic Affairs (Aug. 1, 2022).

Dr. Roberto Gershon Swazo is a professor and coordinator in the school counseling program at Indiana University Indianapolis with expertise in psycho-bilingual issues related to multilingual clients in schools and communities.

Dr. Kara M. Taylor is a public intellectual dedicated to the emancipation/liberation of marginalized communities. She is
a clinical assistant professor with a specialty of literacy in the UTE program. She researches healing spaces created by
literacy.

Dr. Teemant's research and teaching focus on preparing K12 teachers to work with multilingual learners. Under this umbrella, she has published on innovative program development, urban English as a New Language teacher preparation, and pedagogical coaching.

Dr. Willey's research focuses on all aspects of mathematics teaching and learning with Latinas/os through the framework of mathematics and language socialization processes, or Mathematics Discourse Communities.

I am interested in issues of equity and educational change in mathematics and language education as they relate to pedagogy, policy, and teacher education.