Linda Mizell, Ph. D. * Multicultural Studies Specialist

Linda Mizell earned an Ed.D. in Teaching and Learning (specialization in History of African American Education) from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, MA. She is an experienced equity trainer and consultant who has worked in adult education and training, as a community organizer, as an elementary school administrator, and as Director of the Equal Access Project, a collaboration between Boston Public Schools and the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) that used technology to integrate special needs students into regular classrooms. She is the author of Think About Racism (a text for young adult readers), a number of articles on anti-racist teaching practice, the award-winning Teacher’s Guide to the PBS series Africans in America, and numerous middle school and high school teaching guides. She is an Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder who specializes in the history of education in the United States and in social studies teacher education. Her primary EAC tasks will be: 1) provide in-service training in the area of multicultural education, particularly related to work with African American Students, 2) provide gender equity training especially as related to African American students, and 3) provide technical assistance in Region VIII as needed.