Na'ilah Suad Nasir

Na’ilah Suad Nasir is the H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African American Studies, and she holds the Birgeneau Chair in Educational Disparities in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her program of research focuses on issues of race, culture, and schooling. She also examines the relation between race and mathematic learning. She is the author of Racialized Identities: Race and Achievement for African-American Youth, published by Stanford University Press in 2011. She has also published over 30 articles in scholarly journals.