By Jonathan Morales

2021年8月16日

萨克拉门托 State’s 教育领导学博士 program has hired two new faculty members whose courses, research, and community work will focus on antiracist leadership.

伊丽莎白·摩根（Elizabeth Morgan）和希娃·萨巴蒂（Sheeva Sabati）是美国第一批明确关注教育领域反种族主义领导的人。 导演Vajra Watson。

They will this fall join a College of Education and University that have recommitted to confronting racism and increasing belonging on campus, most recently through development of 反种族主义和包容性校园计划, which outlines specific steps to address and ameliorate discrimination and inequity at 囊状态.

沃森说，该学院在全国范围内进行了搜索，收到了数百份申请，最初只计划雇佣一个人。 However, the college was able to secure funding for both of its top candidates, reflecting its commitment to the University’s antiracism work.

“The college has continued to make it a priority to take President (Robert S.) Nelsen’s call to become an antiracist campus,” Watson said.

“Having this level of expertise is going to help us, both as a leadership team and a full college, be critical of our own curriculum, consciousness, and commitments.”

Watson said the goal is to move “beyond performative racial justice.”

萨巴蒂和摩根将在重要问题上为他们的课程带来专业知识，如批判性种族理论和教育中的系统性不公正。

沃森说，社区和地区也将感受到它们的影响。 萨巴蒂和摩根是萨克拉门托本地人，分别从加州大学戴维斯分校和加州大学圣克鲁斯分校回到家乡，已经深入参与社区服务和社区研究。 他们将作为萨克州立大学的教员继续这项工作。

They also will build on the work of College of Education faculty to “move the campus toward greater systems of equity,” Watson said.

招聘委员会并没有特别考虑聘请有本地背景的教师，但沃森表示，这样做有额外的好处。

“Local knowledge and local connections really do matter, and when we think about the way to sustain work over time, our relationship to community is key,” she said.

Sabati earned her bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Santa Clara University in 2006 and her master’s and doctorate in 2014 and 2019, respectively, from UC Santa Cruz, where she also taught. 她的研究兴趣包括批判性种族和民族研究，以及反种族主义女权主义作为理解和解决美国学校不平等问题的关键方法。

Having previously taught undergraduate, master’s, and teaching credential students, Sabati said she is excited about teaching Ed.D. 已经或正在努力成为学校领导的学生，以及在K-12和大学环境中有经验的学生。

“I’m really looking forward to working with Ed.D. students, fellow colleagues really, to be thinking about what it means to grow antiracist education leadership across the different contexts that people are working within,” Sabati said.

摩根也要回到她的家乡，不过就在堤道对面。 She earned her doctorate at UC Davis this spring, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Xavier University of Louisiana and a master’s degree from Harvard.

她的研究在很大程度上集中在种族和残疾教育的交集上，她的论文探讨了黑人母亲如何驾驭特殊教育。 It’s a personal topic as well as an academic one for Morgan, herself a Black mother with a child on the autism spectrum.

摩根说，研究表明，教育机构是社会化的关键部分，不仅是教育和信息，而且还传达社会的价值观和规范。

“Higher education has an outstanding responsibility because we are the institutions that are teaching teachers, and thus, what and how we teach matters,” she said. “囊状态 and the College of Education’s commitment to antiracist practice is crucial and will help make the change our city needs. And I am proud to be a part of the movement.”