Board Officers
CO-DIRECTOR
Ezekiel Joubert III
Ezekiel Joubert III is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations in the Division of Advanced and Applied Studies at California State University-Los Angeles. His research, scholarship, and writing focus on the intersections of racial capitalism and Black education, educational inequality in Black rural communities in Midwest, Black organic intellectual thought and activism, and ethnic studies pedagogies.
CO-DIRECTOR
Jesus Jaime-Diaz
Dr. Jesus Jaime-Diaz is a first generation Mexican American/Chicano activist-scholar having earned a Ph.D. in Language, Reading & Culture with a Minor in Mexican American Studies from The University of Arizona. He also holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies and a BA with a double major in Ethnic Studies & Speech Communication from Oregon State University. Dr. Jaime-Diaz is also an AA and a GED recipient from Blue Mountain Community College in rural Northeastern Oregon.
His research has focused on testimonio and critical ethnographic methods for exploring how Mexican American community college students in Oregon use their lived experiences as catalyst to “empower” them to pursue higher education. His current research utilizes racialized social class as a unit for analysis in the schooling experience(s) of Mexican American students along the Borderlands of Arizona.
His work has been published in Ethnic Studies Review (ESR), Association of Mexican American Educators Journal (AMAE), Journal of Latinos and Education (J. Lat. Educ), Community College Review (CCR), Journal of Class & Culture (JCLC), Andragogical Studies (AS), Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS), and Ethnic Studies Pedagogies (ESP).
He is a Co-Director of The Association for Ethnic Studies (AES) and serves on the Board of Directors. He’s also treasurer for the Marxian Analysis of Society, Schools, and Education (SIG 157) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He works with the Editorial Collective of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS), based out of The Hellenic Republic of Greece at The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
IMMEDIATE PAST – PRESIDENT
Julia Jordan-Zachery
Julia S. Jordan-Zachery is professor and chair of the Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Department at Wake Forest University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on African American women and public policy. She is also the author of the award winning books Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy (2009 Routledge) and Shadow Bodies: Black Women, Ideology, Representation, and Politics (Rutgers University Press, 2017) as well as a number of articles and edited volumes including Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag: Twenty-First-Century Acts of Self-Definition (University of Arizona Press, 2019). Jordan-Zachery was awarded the Accinno Teaching Award, Providence College (2015-2016). Jordan-Zachery serves as the Immediate Past President of the Association for Ethnic Studies.