Published: March 6, 2025; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa
Address: 3040 Broadway, New York, NY 10027 Cowin Auditorium (Horace Mann Hall 147) Teachers College, Columbia University New York, NY 10027 United States
Chezare A. Warren, PhD is Associate Professor of Education Policy and Principal Investigator of THE POSSIBILITIES PROJECT at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development. He holds a secondary appointment in Peabody’s Department of Teaching & Learning and is affiliated faculty in African American and Diaspora Studies in the College of Arts and Science. Dr. Warren is a scholar of race and intersectional justice whose research interests center on understanding the conditions that enable Black students’ education success and wellbeing. A former secondary math teacher and school administrator from Chicago, Dr. Warren has held visiting faculty appointments at Stanford University, New York University, and University of Pennsylvania. He is recipient of numerous national recognitions including two early career awards from the American Educational Research Association, and the Charles DeGarmo Award, presented by the Society of Professors of Education and given to a scholar who is a “prominent and distinguished figure in American Education.” He is also a 2019 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Ford Postdoctoral Fellow and 2024 TED-Ed Fellow. His TED talk on empathy in education — an area for which Dr. Warren has published extensively — has more than 400,000 views since publication. Warren is author of Urban Preparation: Young Black Men Moving from Chicago’s South Side to Success in Higher Education (Harvard Education Press, 2017) and Centering Possibility in Black Education (Teachers College Press, 2021). His research has been published in top peer-reviewed journals including Educational Researcher, Journal of Teacher Education, and Urban Education. He is a widely sought after speaker and consultant on issues of race and equity in education.
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm EST
Free!
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