Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Melissa K. Holt
Dr. Melissa K. Holt is an associate professor in counseling psychology at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and a licensed psychologist. She is also the director of the Kilachand Honors College at Boston University. Dr. Holt’s research explores how adolescents’ exposure to violence—particularly bias-based harassment (i.e. harassment based on one’s identity)—influences […]
Mary E. Hughes
Dr. Mary Hughes is a senior lecturer in the Language & Literacy Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Hughes’ research and teaching interests include linguistics, first and second language acquisition, multilingualism, language education, and language revitalization. Her first language acquisition research focuses on the interaction of syntactic and discourse–pragmatic […]
Anthony Abraham Jack
Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack is the inaugural faculty director of the Newbury Center and associate professor of higher education leadership at Boston University. Dr. Jack’s research documents the overlooked diversity among lower-income undergraduates: the Doubly Disadvantaged—those who enter college from local, typically distressed public high schools—and the Privileged Poor, or those who do so from […]
Davena Jackson
Dr. Davena Jackson is an assistant professor of urban education in the Teaching & Learning Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, where she focuses on English education, language, and literacy. A veteran English educator of more than 20 years, her research-practice partnerships have sought to disrupt anti-Blackness, anti-Black racism, and […]
Laura M. Jiménez
Dr. Laura M. Jiménez, BU Wheelock’s associate dean for equity, diversity & inclusion and a senior lecturer in literacy education, has always been intrigued by the ways elements such as purpose, person, text, and context, of any given reading event interact to influence reading comprehension and meaning making in the classroom. Studying both literature and […]
Nicole Kingdon
Nicole Kingdon is a research assistant at Boston University’s Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED) in the Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. At CEED, Ms. Kingdon supports the Reimagining Childcare Evaluation Study, which examines the effects of power-building, relationships, and collaboration for childcare providers and parents on the childcare advocacy ecosystem. […]
Anna Lim
Dr. Anna Lim is a lecturer in Deaf studies at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, where she teaches various topics in deaf studies and Deaf education including the dynamics of diversity, oppression, and social justice in deaf communities and sign language structure. Her research interests encompass multilingualism of deaf people of […]
Alina Lingley
Alina Lingley is a doctoral student at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development pursuing a degree in educational leadership & policy studies. She studying history curriculum, diversity, and multiculturalism in history curriculum, and how history curriculum can improve through leaders in education. Previously, Alina worked as a high school history teacher, teaching […]
Kristin McIlhagga
Dr. Kristin McIlhagga is the associate director of the Center for Educating Critically at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. McIlhagga’s current research focuses on antioppression pedagogies in K-12 and postsecondary classrooms. She draws on culturally and historically responsive pedagogies, intersectionality, and critical whiteness studies to consider ways that educators can […]
Michael A. Medina
Dr. Michael A. Medina is an assistant professor of applied human development in BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. As a Latino first-generation college graduate, Dr. Medina is interested in the systems and contexts that support student success. His research examines the benefits of ethnic-racial identity development and diversity across social contexts. His […]