María Del Socorro Velázquez is an IDEAL Provostial Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Her research interrogates the systems, structures, and processes that shape inequities in schools and communities. Relatedly, she investigates how educators, families, and community members contest and disrupt inequities in schools and neighborhoods. As a community-engaged scholar, María is actively working on expanding the ways in which her scholarship and service align. She aims to bridge relevant and rigorous research with ongoing efforts to shape critical policies and practices toward transformative futures for minoritized and low-income youth and families.
María’s current research examines the connections between housing, educational policy, and place. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds an M.A. in Educational Policy from UW-Madison and a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.