Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos, Ph.D. is the Goizueta Endowed Professor and executive director for the Center for Latino Achievement and Success in Education. He has spent approximately 25 years in education including over 15 years in academia. Previously, he served as the Murchison Endowed Professor and chair at Trinity University, associate professor and founding director of the Latinx Education Research Center 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 University of Southern California Rossier School of Education and University of California, 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 70 publications and received several prestigious awards, honors, and grants, including the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral fellowship, the American Educational Research Association’s Early Career Award, and the American Educational Studies Association’s Critics’ Choice Book Award, among others. He began his professional career as an urban bilingual schoolteacher and is the son of Mexican migrant farmworkers.
