Na'ilah Suad Nasir

Na'ilah Suad Nasir is an educational researcher and the sixth president of the Spencer Foundation. She was president of the American Educational Research Association in 2021–22. Previously she held several named professorships, including the Birgeneau Chair in Educational Disparities and the H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African-American Studies at UC Berkeley, where she also served as the vice-chancellor of equity and inclusion.

Education and career Nasir earned her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley and PhD in Educational Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Nasir's work has resulted in the publication of over 30 scholarly articles Mathematics for Equity: A Framework for Successful Practice; and We Dare Say Love: Supporting Achievement in the Educational Life of Black Boys. She co-edited the Handbook of the Cultural Foundations of Learning.

Honors and awards In 2017, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Education. In 2022, she gave the convocation speech to the Northwestern School of Education and Social Policy.