Eric J. Demeulenaere

Eric DeMeulenaere is a Professor of Education at Clark University. Prior to joining Clark University’s faculty, he taught middle and high school social studies and English in Oakland and San Francisco, CA. In 2004, he co-founded and directed an innovative small public school in East Oakland that focused on social justice and increased academic outcomes for youth of color. Before opening the school, Professor DeMeulenaere earned his Ph.D. in the Social and Cultural Studies Program at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. He has consulted with educational leaders and teachers nationally and internationally to transform their pedagogical practices and develop antiracist school cultures. His research employs participatory action research and narrative inquiry methods and draws extensively from critical theory to examine how to create more effective and liberatory learning spaces for youth of color. He is co-author of Reflections from the Field: How Coaching Made Us Better Teachers. His second book, The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change, also co-authored with Colette Cann, was published in 2020.