Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos

Dr. Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos has spent approximately 25 years in education including over 15 years in academia. Previously, he has served as the Murchison Endowed Professor and Chair at Trinity University, Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Latinx Education Research Center (LERC) at Santa Clara University, and Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. He also served as a Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, and Visiting Scholar at both USC Rossier School of Education and UC Berkeley with a courtesy affiliation at PACE at Stanford University. He specializes in education policy and finance equity for traditionally marginalized populations. He has over 60 publications and received several prestigious awards, honors, and grants, including the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral fellowship, AERA Early Career Award, and AESA Book Critics Choice Award, among others. He began his professional career as an urban bilingual school teacher and is a son of Mexican migrant farmworkers.