Antoinette J. Waller

Antoinette is a 4th year doctoral candidate in Education Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland. She earned her B.S. in psychology and criminal justice from Virginia Commonwealth University, and her M.S. in family, youth, and community sciences from the University of Florida. She is a proud first gen scholar whose research focuses on education policy and redressing inequities in educational access and outcomes. Specifically, she examines how minoritized students’ - with an emphasis on Black girls and women - identity and educational experiences influence their college and career trajectories. Her work aims to emphasize the importance of structural, historical, and cultural contexts as well as the interactions among these contexts in education research and policy.

She previously served as a graduate student senator and on the executive committee of the UMD senate, and as vice president of the college of education’s graduate student organization. She has is currently serving her second term term as the secretary/historian of the American Educational Research Association’s Graduate Student Council (AERA GSC). Currently, she is a Thurgood Marshall Research Fellow at The Institute for Public Leadership at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy

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