Aditi Rajendran
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Assistant Professor
Areas of interest
Racial equity leadership
Learning & organizational change
Community-based and participatory research
Critical and indigenous theories
School-community relations
PhD, Educational Policy, Organizations, and Leadership in P-12 Systems, University of Washington - Seattle
MEd, Learning, Diversity, and Urban Studies, Vanderbilt University
BA, Business Administration, University of Iowa
My research explores how leadership shifts policies and practices towards more racially just schools and systems. I employ community-engaged and participatory design research methods to build more authentic and equitable collaborations between universities, schools, and communities. I draw on critical and Indigenous theories to center the knowledges, histories, experiences, and agency of communities of color leading equity-focused organizational change.
Awards
- Barbara L. Jackson Fellow
- David M. Clark Scholar
- Presidential Dissertation Award, University of Washington
- Provost Doctoral Scholarship, University of Washington
Affiliations
- American Education Research Association
- University Council of Education Administration