Na'ilah Suad Nasir

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Na'ilah Suad Nasir is an educational researcher and the sixth president of the Spencer Foundation. She led the American Educational Research Association in 2021–22. She has held top professorships at UC Berkeley, including the Birgeneau Chair in Educational Disparities and the H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African-American Studies, and she served as the university’s vice-chancellor for equity and inclusion. She has also taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Education.

Nasir earned a BA from UC Berkeley and a PhD in Educational Psychology from UCLA. Her work focuses on how culture and society shape learning and how to create fairer schools. She has published over 30 articles and several books, such as Racialized Identities: Race and Achievement Among African-American Youth; Mathematics for Equity: A Framework for Successful Practice; and We Dare Say Love: Supporting Achievement in the Educational Life of Black Boys. She co-edited the Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning. She was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2017. In 2022 she gave the convocation address at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy.