Noor Jones-Bey

Noor Marie Jones-Bey has been an educator and program director for the past 10 years within East Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, and most recently in the South Bronx. She is interested in educating for the purpose of liberation and humanity. She is a full time graduate student in the sociology of education at NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and a 21st Century Scholarship and Teachers for Social Justice award recipient. Her research interests include culturally relevant pedagogy, critical race theory, participatory action research, urban sociology and cultural studies.