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Rita Kohli, UC Riverside

Associate Professor,
School of Education
She/Her/Hers

Rita Kohli is an Associate Professor of Race, Teaching, and Teacher Education, coordinator of the K-12 Ethnic Studies Pathway program in the School of Education, and cooperating faculty in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice (ITOC)— a professional development institute dedicated to the racial literacy and racial justice leadership development teachers and teacher educators, and serves as faculty advisor for UCR’s Future Teachers of Color student organization. A scholar of critical race theory in education, her research examines structural racism and initiatives for racial justice within teaching, teacher education, and professional development, with specific focus on the racialized experiences and racial justice efforts of teachers of Color. She is co-editor of the book, Confronting Racism in Teacher Education: Counternarratives of Critical Practice, and author of the book, Teachers of Color: Resisting Racism and Reclaiming Education, which was published in the Race and Education series of Harvard Education Press. She is the recipient of multiple awards including: UCR’s Change Maker for Social Innovation Award (2016), the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Scholar Activist Award from the Critical Educators for Social Justice Special Interest Group, (2017) Division G Early Career Award (2018), Division K Mid-career Award (2020), Division K Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Award (2023), and AACTE’s Outstanding Journal of Teacher Education Article Award (2023).

Email: rita.kohli@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ritakoh
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