Color of Education, a new initiative of the Public School Forum of North Carolina, Duke Policy Bridge and the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, has formed a Guiding Committee to help shape their efforts around race equity and education.
The Guiding Committee is co-chaired by Dr. Keisha Bentley Edwards, Associate Director of Research, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and Keith Poston, President & Executive Director, Public School Forum of North Carolina.
Guiding Committee Members
- Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards (Co-Chair), Associate Director of Research, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity
- Dr. William “Sandy” Darity, Director, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity
- Sandra Wilcox Conway, Consultant, Conway and Associates
- Keith Poston (Co-Chair), President & Executive Director, Public School Forum of North Carolina
- Lauren Fox, Senior Director of Policy, Public School Forum of North Carolina
- Patience Wall, Policy Engagement Coordinator, Duke Policy Bridge
- Dr. Iheoma Iruka, Chief Research Innovation Officer, HighScope Educational Research Foundation
- Dr. Charles Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University Sanford School
- Alfred Mays, Program Officer, Science Education and Diversity in Science, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- Dr. Rodney Trice, Assistant Superintendent for Equity Affairs, Wake County Public Schools
- Christina Spears, Special Assistant, Office of Equity Affairs, Wake County Public Schools
- Dr. Fouad Abd-El-Khalick, Professor and Dean, UNC School of Education
- Dr. Marta Sánchez, Assistant Professor, UNC-Wilmington Watson College of Education
- Andreina Malki, Youth Director, Student Action with Farmworkers
- Dr. Saundra Wall Williams, Founder, Vision Building Institute for Women
- Graig Meyer, Founder, The Equity Collaborative/Member, NC General Assembly
- Dr. Valerie Bridges, Superintendent, Edgecombe County Schools
- Letha Muhammad, Director, Education Justice Alliance