Bio

Neida Basheer Ahmad, Ph.D., is a Social Science Researcher in the Walkout! Lab for Youth Justice, focusing on a project that aims to understand the education paths that lead to and through incarceration for youth to shed light on the impact of multiple oppressions and intersectional challenges on their lives. She earned her Ph.D. from the Race, Inequality, and Language in Education program in the Stanford Graduate School of Education in 2024. Her research interests include intersectionality, critical policy analysis, language policy, bilingual education, raciolinguistic ideologies, ethnic studies, and culturally sustaining pedagogies. Her research explores the co-naturalization of language and race in language policy making and implementation. She is also concerned about asymmetrical power relationships in research and seeks to create reciprocal relationships with her research participants.

Education & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Stanford University, Education (2024)
  • M.A., Stanford University, Public Policy (2022)
  • B.S., University of Arizona, Psychology (2017)
  • B.A., University of Arizona, Spanish and Linguistics (2017)

All Publications

  • Reproduction or reinvention: whither the bilingual renaissance? INTERNATIONAL MULTILINGUAL RESEARCH JOURNAL Ahmad, N., Martinez, R. 2025

    View details for DOI 10.1080/19313152.2025.2477379

    View details for Web of Science ID 001443214000001

  • Dual Language Education in the USA CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION Poza, L. E., Ahmad, N., Valdes, G. edited by Romanowski, P. 2025: 443-466

    View details for Web of Science ID 001574110500024

  • Prefiguring Translingual Possibilities: The Transformative Potential of Translanguaging for Dual Language Bilingual Education Transformative Translanguaging Espacios: Latinx Students and their Teachers Rompiendo Fronteras sin Miedo Martínez, R. A., Vieyra, V. M., Ahmad, N. B., Stovall, J. L. Multilingual Matters. 2022: 95-112