From equity talk to equity walk: expanding practitioner knowledge for racial justice in higher education Ebook

Tia Brown McNair is senior director for student success in the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Student Success at AAC Engagement in High-Impact Practices. McNair chairs AACs Equity Working Group, which is part of a large-scale, systematic effort to provide design principles for 21st-century learning and long-term student success. She has held leadership positions within the regional and statewide TRIO associations as a board member and state president.  Estela Bensimon is a professor of higher education at the USC Rossier School of Education and Director of the Center for Urban Education, which she founded in 1999. With a singular focus on increasing racial equity in higher education outcomes for students of color, she developed the Equity Scorecard–a process for using inquiry to drive changes in institutional practice and culture.  Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux is the Senior Institutional Research Analyst at Caltech. Her work focuses on the ways in which higher education policy, institutions and practitioners contribute to and/or reduce educational inequities experienced by minoritized student populations. Piqueux received her bachelors degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her masters degree from the California Institute of Technology, and her doctorate from the University of Southern California.