Bianca Baldridge
Expert on after school education, community-based youth organizations, race and anti-blackness, sociology of education, community-engaged research/teaching, youth work
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies School of Education bbaldridge@wisc.edu Home page Twitter: @biancajontae
Topics
- The impact of race, class, and gender on educational reforms that shape community-based educational spaces that engage Black youth
- Disrupting deficit/racist framing of Black and Latinx youth in educational spaces
- The practices and dilemmas of community-based youth workers amidst education privatization and the non-profit industrial complex
- Youth and adult partnerships within community-based educational spaces
Achievements
- Author of "Reclaiming Community: Race and the Uncertain Future of Youth Work" (Stanford University Press)
- Co Investigator: Mobilizing Youth Voices for Racial Justice
- Recipient, Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Community-based Learning
- Author of "Relocating the Deficit: Reimagining Black Youth in Neoliberal Times"