Antwan Jefferson is now a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver. Antwan teaches in the Human Development and Family Relations program (undergraduate and graduate) and he supports the Urban and Diverse Communities concentration of the Leadership for Educational Equity EdD program. His teaching emphasizes analysis of race, class, and gender in society, focused on schooling; his teaching also focuses upon social justice, emphasizing an asset-based emphasis on diverse families, and supporting stronger and deeper community engagement in the schooling education of students through the pre-service training of helping professionals. His research agenda considers the ways that family and community members experience schools and organizations in their communities, including the implications of space, voice, and power in decision-making and not-for-profit organizations and schools. In 2019, Antwan received the TIAA Chancellor’s Urban Engaged Scholars award which recognizes the outstanding contributions of faculty to the Denver-metro region through community-engaged scholarship.
Please join us Tuesday, September 22 from 1:00pm-1:30pm to celebrate Antwan’s promotion to Clinical Associate Professor and hear more about his research and community engaged scholarship.