Darion Wallace

Darion Wallace

Darion A. Wallace, from Inglewood, CA, is a PhD student in the Graduate School of Education in the Race, Inequality, and Language in Education and Education Data Science programs. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Rhetoric and African American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in International Education Policy Analysis from Stanford University. As a Black Education Studies scholar, Darion’s research draws upon Black Studies, Sociology, and History, while employing mixed methods, to interrogate the ways K-12 American schools cohere logics of (anti)blackness and structure the life and educational outcomes of Black students across temporal and spatial bounds. Moreover, he is interested in how abolitionist praxes, pedagogies, and epistemologies rooted in the Black radical and intellectual tradition have and continue to serve a liberatory function in the project of Black education. Previously, he has worked with the Learning Policy Institute as a Research and Policy Associate, the Service Employees International Union as an Organizer, and San Francisco State University as an Africana Studies Lecturer on Black Masculinities and Black Social Science. Darion is recipient of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, the Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship, the Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars Fellowship, the Haas Graduate Public Service Fellowship, the Stanford Research, Action, and Impact through Strategic Engagement Fellowship, Stanford Impact Labs Summer Fellowship, and the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.