Janelle Scott

Janelle Scott is a professor and the Birgeneau Chair in Educational Disparities at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the National Academy of Education

and a Fellow of AERA. She served as AERA president in 2024–2025. Her research centers on the politics of educational policy in a multiracial, segregated, and unequal society, including studies on school choice policies, privatization, and philanthropy. Her books include The Politics of Education Policy in an Era of Inequality: Possibilities for Democratic Schooling (co-authored with S. Douglass and G. Anderson, 2019/2025), and Racialization and Educational Inequality in Global Perspective (co-edited with M. Bajaj, 2023).