OCCRL Staff and Affiliates
OCCRL Director - Dr. Eboni Zamani-Gallaher
Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership and Director of OCCRL
Eboni Zamani-Gallaher is Professor of Higher Education/Community College Leadership and Director of the Office for Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL). She previously served as Associate Head of the Department of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership and Associate Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her teaching, research, and consulting activities largely include psychosocial adjustment and transition of marginalized collegians, transfer, access policies, student development and services at community colleges. View her video below on social justice. Full biography >
OCCRL Associate Director - Dr. Anjalé D. Welton
Associate Professor of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership and Associate Director of OCCRL
Dr. Welton's scholarship examines the educational opportunity structures of low-income students of color and how institutional and social structures—such as race, social class, tracking, school administration, and teacher leadership—shape the connections low-income students of color make to educational resources, as well as impact how students navigate school and matriculate to postsecondary education. Her other research interests include exploring how scholars use critical policy analysis (race and social class intersections) as a methodological tool for uncovering issues of inequity and promoting agency and transformation in P-20 educational settings. View her video below on anti-racist education. Full biography >
OCCRL Core Staff
OCCRL Affiliates
