Dr. Alaina Neal-Jackson is the Educational Culture and Justice Coordinator for the Detroit P-20 Partnership in the School of Education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where she also received her doctorate in Educational Studies, Foundations and. Her research is centered on race and gender in schooling as per a larger interest in the health and welfare of Black students particularly, but not singularly, in underserved contexts. More specifically, drawing upon sociological frames and critical race and gender theories, Dr. Neal-Jackson examines how schools, as social institutions, structure Black girls’ and women’s experiences and opportunities, and in what ways this structuring reproduces social inequalities along raced, gendered, and classed lines. Her scholarship has been published in Review of Educational Research, Teachers’ College Record, The Journal of College Student Development, and The Journal of Educational Administration and History. She is a proud alumni of the Edward Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. Prior to completing her doctorate she received a B.A in Rhetoric, Narrative and Image from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.A. in Educational Leadership and Policy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.