Terri N. Watson is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at The City College of New York and a member of the Urban Education faculty at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center. Her research examines effective school leadership and is aimed to improve the educational outcomes and life chances of historically excluded and underserved students and families. She employs Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist Theory and Motherwork as methodological frameworks. Her scholarship is featured in several edited books and journals, including Educational Administration Quarterly, the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, The Journal of Negro Education, the Journal of School Leadership, and Leadership and Policy in Schools.
Adelia Gibson is a second year doctoral student at the GC whose focus and interest in the identity of Black women, the pushout of Black teachers post the Brown decision, and the importance of representation has brought her to this course. She has worked in education for over 10 years as a teacher, teacher leader, education administrator in the Bronx Field Support Center, and is currently an assistant principal at Cornerstone Academy for Social Action MS.
Noelle Mapes is a first year doctoral student at the GC in Urban Education. As a third grade teacher, she learns daily alongside hilarious, creative kids who like to ask big questions and think critically about power structures. Her research interests are centered around education history and education policy. She's seeking to further develop her own "big questions" around integration policies, school funding, and the ways these elements of education serve us and fail us.