Sonya Douglass Horsford
Associate Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University
Sonya Douglass Horsford, Ed.D. currently serves as Associate Professor of Education Leadership in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, where her research focuses on the politics of race and inequality in education, leadership, policy, and reform. Her scholarship examines the problem of racial inequality in K–12 schools and how race is conceptualized and understood by leaders for equity and social justice.
Dr. Horsford is founding director of the Black Education Research Collective (BERC) and faculty affiliate at the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME) at Teachers College. She also chairs the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Leadership for Social Justice (LSJ) Special Interest Group (SIG) and Politics of Education (PEA) SIG.
Prior to joining Teachers College, Dr. Horsford served on the faculty of education leadership at George Mason University and University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
