Ali Michael, Ph.D.

Ali Michael, Ph.D., is the co-founder and director of the Race Institute for K-12 Educators, and the author ofRaising Race Questions: Whiteness, Inquiry and Education(Teachers College Press, 2015), winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award. She is co-editor of the bestsellingEveryday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories(2015, Stylus Press) and The Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys (2018, Corwin Press). She also sits on the editorial board of the journalWhiteness and Education. Ali teaches in the mid-career doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvanias Graduate School of Education, as well as the Graduate Counseling Program at Arcadia University. In the 2017-18 school year, she will hold the Davis Visiting Professorship at Ursinus College. Alis article,What do White Children Need to Know About Race?, co-authored with Dr. Eleonora Bartoli inIndependent Schools Magazine, won the Association and Media Publishing Gold Award for Best Feature Article in 2014. She may be best known for her November 9, 2016 pieceWhat Do We Tell the Children?here on theHuffington Post, where she is a regular contributor.For more details seewww.alimichael.org.