Kia Turner

Kia Turner is pursuing a PhD in race, inequality, and language in education at Stanford Graduate School of Education. She graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in history and literature in 2016, and from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2017 as a member of the founding cohort for the Harvard Teacher Fellows Program. She is also pursuing her JD at Yale Law School. Her research seeks to understand how we might operationalize abolitionist and afro-futurist theory in educational and legal research and practice so as to (re)imagine a speculative and liberatory education, especially with regard to Black and Brown students’ experiences of punishment and justice in schools.  Kia works in direct partnership with youth, community organizers, movement lawyers, and teachers to build research-practice communities founded in strong, long-term relationships.  Kia taught middle school English in Harlem for five years where she instituted a culturally relevant "Tools for Liberation" advisory curriculum. Kia is a recipient of the National Council of English Teacher's Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award, Teaching Tolerance's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship. She is currently a Knight Hennessy Fellow, a Stanford Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education Fellow, and a Stanford Impact Labs Summer Collaborative Research Fellow.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2362-0782

Personal Website: https://www.kiaturner.com/

Stanford Profile: https://profiles.stanford.edu/intranet/kia-turner

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