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Dr.

Na'ilah Suad Nasir

Spencer Foundation
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Education
Elected
2021

Na’ilah Suad Nasir is the sixth President of the Spencer Foundation, which invests in education research that cultivates learning and transforms lives. From 2008-2019, she held a faculty appointment at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also served as Vice-Chancellor of Equity and Inclusion. Nasir earned her PhD in Education Psychology at UCLA and was a member of the faculty in the School of Education at Stanford University. Her work focuses on issues of race, culture, learning, and identity. She is the author of Racialized Identities: Race and Achievement for African-American Youth and has published numerous scholarly articles. Nasir is a member of the National Çï¿ûÊÓƵ of Education and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). 

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