Edwin Mayorga

Edwin Mayorga identifies as a parent-educator-activist-scholar, and is an Assistant Professor of Educational Studies and Latin American and Latino Studies at Swarthmore College (PA). He directs the Education in our Barrios Project (#BarrioEdProject), a youth participatory action research collaborative in/with Latinx core communities in Philadelphia; the Community, School, and Colleges Partnership (CSCP) Study of school+community partnership models; and #CritEdPol, an online journal of critical education policy studies. He is also a member of the Philadelphia Ed Justice Research Collaborative. Edwin has written articles and book chapters on racial neoliberal urbanism, scholar-activism, PAR entremundos, and teacher education in the time of Black Lives Matter; and is co-editor of the book What’s Race Got to Do with It? How Current School Reform Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality. (Peter Lang; 2015; co-edited with B. Picower). He is on the board of the National Latino Education Research and Policy Project (NLERAP), and on the K-16 Advisory of the Philadelphia Higher Education Network for Neighborhood Development (PHENND)