I am an interdisciplinary scholar, educator, mother, and founder of CulturED Arts Consulting whose work moves across curriculum studies, arts and museum education, Black feminist epistemologies, and motherscholarship. My research asks how knowledge is produced through lived experience, aesthetic practice, mothering, culture, and community—and what becomes possible when people historically positioned as subjects of knowledge are recognized as knowledge producers themselves.

I earned my Ed.D. in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University with a focus on arts based multicultural education. My interdisciplinary scholarship, teaching, and public-facing work have been recognized through national awards, fellowships, and appointments, including three 2026 AERA Outstanding Dissertation Awards, a Schomburg Center Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, a Hunter College Faculty Fellowship, and my appointment as a Fulbright Specialist. I also serve as the lead of CulturED Arts Consulting, where I bring research into conversation with schools, museums, cultural institutions, and communities.

I am a Chinese international scholar, teacher educator, and motherscholar whose work centers on multilingualism, early childhood education, literacy, and the lived experiences of immigrant and motherscholars of color. I am currently a Lecturer at SUNY Brockport, where I teach courses in early childhood and childhood education. I received my Ed.D. in Early Childhood Education and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University.

My scholarship explores translanguaging, multimodality, raciolinguistics, and the intersections of motherhood, migration, race, and academic life. My recent work includes a book chapter (link) on ethics in multilingual research published by De Gruyter Mouton. I have presented my research at AERA and the Penn Ethnography Forum, including collaborative autoethnographic work examining the experiences of international doctoral student-mothers and Black and Asian single motherscholars.

My work as a teacher educator has been recognized with the Morton T. Embree Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning at Teachers College, Columbia University. I have also received funding supporting my teaching, research, and professional development, including the 2026 SUNY Brockport Innovation Micro Grant.

Faculty P.I.

Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz is an award-winning professor and a leading expert in racial literacy, educational equity, and critical self-reflection. She developed the Archaeology of Self™ framework, a transformative methodology for self-excavation that challenges biases and fosters social justice leadership. Dr. Sealey-Ruiz has published extensively on racial literacy development and leads innovative workshops across educational institutions and organizations.

A poet, writer, and educator from the South Bronx, Dr. Sealey-Ruiz earned her PhD in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, in 2005. She was recently honored with the 2024 Dorothy Height Distinguished Alumni Award, a recognition of her commitment to racial justice and education. With a deep passion for Black literature, she created a minor in Black literature at NYU and has been a driving force in advocating for culturally responsive models in education. Dr. Sealey-Ruiz’s personal journey includes navigating the complexities of academia while raising her daughter, Olivia, and this experience continues to inform her work in promoting equity and justice in educational spaces.

Director of the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College

Ezekiel Dixon-Román is a Professor of Critical Race, Media, & Educational Studies and the Director of the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College. His research critically re-theorizes quantification technologies, exploring how race and other differences are produced by sociotechnical systems. His work examines how power shapes bodily capacities and racialized demarcations, particularly within global neoliberal racial capitalism. Dixon-Román is the author of Inheriting Possibility: Social Reproduction & Quantification in Education (2017), which won the 2018 Outstanding Book Award from AERA, and he is currently working on projects like Haunting Algorithms: Algorithmic Governance and Logics of Colonialism. He is also a co-editor of the Duke University Press book series Anima: Critical Race Studies Otherwise and an associate editor for the Review of Research in Education.