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Dr. Linda Mizell
An educational historian, author, teacher educator, and educational consultant whose professional interests center on the creation of multicultural, anti-racist, inclusive communities, in pursuit of which she has worked extensively with schools, colleges, media organizations, and other institutions.
Dr. Mizell is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she majored in Black Studies with a concentration in Multicultural Education. At the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she earned a doctorate in Learning and Teaching, her research focused on the intersection of social and political activism with education activism in Florida’s Progressive Era African American communities. As faculty of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder and
the Department of Education at Tufts University, she taught courses on the history of education, the theory and practice of critical multicultural education, and education for social justice. Dr. Mizell has served as an elementary school administrator, a nonprofit project manager, in adult education and training, and as a community organizer. She continues to work with a number of social justice organizations as an advisor and consultant.
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