Doctoral Student

Anderson de Andrade is a PhD student in Sociology at Rutgers University. His research interests include: education and inequality, political polarization, and how schools navigate politics in the classroom. These interests have been informed by his six years as a public school teacher and through work with organizations seeking to bring greater equity into education spaces. His previous research has examined how communities define school quality and the similarities and differences of teacher-led labor movements in rural West Virginia and urban California.

Anderson earned a BA from Georgetown University in 2017 and an MA from Loyola Marymount University in 2019. He is also the author of Good Schools: Stories to Inform Public Education Reform (New Degree Press, 2020).