Jacqueline Pedota
Biography
Dr. Jackie Pedota is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Leadership in Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research broadly examines how educational access and opportunity are shaped within racialized institutional contexts and constrained by restrictive policy environments to illuminate the mechanisms that reinforce and reproduce racial inequities.
Area of Expertise
- Racial Equity
- Organizational Theory and Change
- Law, Policy, and Politics
- Latino Students
Degrees
Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
M.Ed. in Educational Leadership and Policy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
B.S. in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Additional Information
Dr. Pedota is a nationally recognized scholar whose work has earned prestigious honors, including the Bobby Wright Dissertation of the Year Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the Outstanding Publication Award from AERA's Division J. Her research has been featured at national conferences such as the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the American Sociological Association (ASA), the Oral History Association (OHA), the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), and the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS). Dr. Pedota's work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including The Journal of Higher Education, Educational Researcher, and Education Sciences, as well as in news outlets such as Inside Higher Ed. Before pursuing an academic career, she worked for over a decade across the P-20 educational pipeline including roles in K-12 instruction, non-profit management, educational technology, and higher education administration.