Rachel Roberson joins the School of Language, Culture, and Society as an assistant professor of teaching. Rachel has a Ph.D. in education policy & organizations from the University of California, Berkeley. Their scholarship compliments a fourteen-year career working with education-related non-profits, schools, and colleges in various spaces and places from California to Texas, Colorado and Minnesota. Rachel has dedicated their academic and administrative career towards transforming the landscape of educational equity and inclusion. In the classroom, they leverage Black feminist and community-based pedagogy and praxis to co-construct a thriving learning environment, which uniquely positions them to fill an urgent need in the social sciences. As a first-generation scholar and educator, Rachel is excited to join OSU’s justice-oriented scholarly community.