Color of Education

The Public School Forum of North Carolina

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Guiding Committee

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 Lauren Fox, Senior Director of Policy, Public School Forum of North Carolina.

Click on any Guiding Committee member below to view his/her profile:

Dr. Keisha Bentley Edwards, Co-Chair

Dr. Lauren Fox, Co-Chair

Guiding Committee Members

  • Dr. Fouad Abd-El-Khalick, Professor and Dean, UNC School of Education
  • Dr. Valerie Bridges, Superintendent, Edgecombe County Schools
  • Sandra Wilcox Conway, Consultant, Conway and Associates
  • Dr. William “Sandy” Darity, Director, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity; Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, Duke University Sanford School
  • Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards (Co-Chair), Associate Director of Research & Director of Health Equity Working Group, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity; Associate Professor in Medicine, Duke University
  • Dr. Charles Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University Sanford School
  • Dr. Lauren Fox (Co-Chair), Senior Director of Policy, Public School Forum of North Carolina
  • Dr. Iheoma Iruka, Chief Research Innovation Officer, HighScope Educational Research Foundation
  • Ashley Kazouh, Policy Analyst, Public School Forum of NC
  • Dr. Helen Ladd, Susan B. King Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, Duke University Sanford School
  • Andreina Malki, Youth Director, Student Action with Farmworkers
  • Alfred Mays, Program Officer, Science Education and Diversity in Science, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
  • Graig Meyer, Founder, The Equity Collaborative; Member, NC General Assembly
  • Letha Muhammad, Director, Education Justice Alliance
  • Dr. Marta Sánchez, Assistant Professor, UNC-Wilmington Watson College of Education
  • Christina Spears, Special Assistant, Office of Equity Affairs, Wake County Public Schools
  • Dr. Rodney Trice, Assistant Superintendent for Equity Affairs, Wake County Public Schools
  • Patience Wall, State and Local Policy Engagement Director, Policy Bridge, Duke University Sanford School
  • Dr. Saundra Wall Williams, Founder, Vision Building Institute for Women