Dr. Maisha Winn

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Maisha T. Winn is a Professor and Faculty Director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning's Equity Learning Initiative at Stanford University. Her scholarship focuses on non-dominant youth communities and their development of literate trajectories in various historical and contemporary contexts of formal schooling. Winn seeks to understand how these communities create practices, processes, and institutions tailored to their resources for collaborative and equitable futures. As an ethnographer, her historical research emphasizes social movements within education. Dr. Winn has authored several significant works, including 'Writing Rhythm: Spoken Word Poetry in Urban Classrooms,' 'Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,' and 'Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline.' She has also co-edited influential volumes on restorative justice in education and humanizing research. Her recent book, 'Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and Literary Imagination,' explores the intersection of the Black Arts Movement and literary imagination. She is a 2022-23 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

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