Alexandra Freidus is an educational ethnographer, writer, and Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Connecticut. Alex uses sociocultural and critical race theory to ask how educators, policymakers, families, and young people sustain and interrupt racialized inequality in public schools.
Her award-winning research has been funded by the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation and published in journals including American Educational Research Journal, Harvard Educational Review, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Her writing and teaching are deeply informed by over fifteen years of professional experience in K-12 schools.