Maisha T. Winn Voted AERA President-Elect

Maisha T. Winn, the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor in the School of Education at UC Davis, was recently (March 1) voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Winn joins the AERA Council in 2024–2025 as president-elect. Her presidency begins at the conclusion of the association’s 2025 annual meeting.

In addition to being a professor at UC Davis, Winn is the co-founder and co-director of the Transformative Justice in Education Center at UC Davis. Her research examines the intersections of language, literacy, and youth culture. She specifically looks at how non-dominant communities have engineered teaching and learning communities at the contours of and adjacent to school settings.

Winn's scholarship has had a tremendous impact on the DEI efforts here at UC Davis. Specifically, the theoretical framework for the Five Pedagogical Stances (5PS): Language Matters, Justice Matters, Race Matters, History Matters and Futures Matter,  is based on her books on justice and transformation and restorative justice in education.

The 5PS framework has helped to inform and guide the work of the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at UC Davis, according to Renetta G. Tull, Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. . 

Read the full press release from the American Educational Research Association.