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Christina Hewko

Postdoctoral Scholar, Education

BioChristina Hewko is a postdoctoral fellow in the Stanford Accelerator for Learning’s Equity in Learning Initiative and Dr. Maisha T. Winn’s Futuring for Equity Lab. In addition, she is a Stanford PRISM Baker Fellow. As an interdisciplinary education researcher, she draws on justice-oriented frameworks, the learning sciences, and teacher education to explore co-designed learning environments. She is especially interested in the joint activity and processes that support teachers’ and community members’ learning, well-being, and development of justice-oriented teaching practices. While at Stanford she is exploring possibilities for land-based pedagogies and teacher learning about restorative and Ethnic Studies teaching practices.

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Mail Code: 3096
chewko@stanford.edu

Yan Jiang

Postdoctoral Scholar, Education

BioDr. Yan Jiang is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Stanford Center on Early Childhood. She earned her Ph.D. in Education Studies, with a specialization in Computational Social Science, from the University of California, San Diego. Her research examines how social, cultural, and institutional conditions shape children’s developmental environments and create unequal opportunities across family and early education settings. She studies how unequal resources affect what families and educators are able to provide for children, and how unequal recognition shapes whose knowledge and practices are valued as ways of supporting children. To understand these processes, she uses quantitative, computational, and qualitative methods to examine the lived realities of children, families, and educators within the contexts of their everyday lives. Her scholarship has been recognized with the Dissertation Research Funding Award from the Society for Research in Child Development, the Yankelovich Graduate Research Grant, and the International Institute Research Fellowship at UC San Diego. Her research has appeared in leading journals, including Educational Researcher, Review of Educational Research, and Early Education and Development.