Stanford University
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Alexandrea R. Henry
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2023
BioAlexandrea Henry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education in the Race, Inequality, and Language in Education and Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education programs. They earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a minor in education from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Alexandrea’s research draws on Black studies, Critical Pedagogy, and studies of Carceral Logics in education to examine how young people make sense of power through disciplinary practices at school. Moreover, she is interested in centering the experiences and expertise of K-2 students in the fight for liberatory learning spaces. While at Stanford, Alexandrea has worked on the Accessible Ethnic Studies, Newberry Institute, and Juvenile Justice and Alternative Education projects. She has also taught in San Bruno Jail and served as a Systems Navigator with the Santa Clara Public Defender's Office. Previously, they were a public school teacher and union organizer in North Philadelphia, a preschool teacher in Oakland, and has worked on district-level projects related to equity and professional development. Ultimately, she believes in advocating for and co-creating worlds where every person is free, from the River to the Sea.
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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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Michael Hines
Assistant Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of History
BioMichael Hines is a historian of American education whose work concentrates on the educational activism of Black teachers, students, and communities during the Progressive Era (1890s-1940s). He is an Assistant Professor of Education, and an affiliated faculty member with the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Bill Lane Center for the American West. He is the author of A Worthy Piece of Work (Beacon Press, 2022) which details how African Americans educator activists in the early twentieth century created new curricular discourses around race and historical representation. Dr. Hines has published peer reviewed articles and book chapters in outlets including the Journal of African American History, History of Education Quarterly, Review of Educational Research, and the Journal of the History Childhood and Youth. He has also written for popular outlets including the Washington Post, Time magazine, and Chalkbeat. He teaches courses including History of Education in the U.S., and Education for Liberation: A History of African American Education, 1800-The Present.
