Promoting Equity in Undergraduate STEM Classrooms through Pedagogical Approaches

Dr. Roni Ellington is an associate professor of Mathematics Education in the Graduate Program in Mathematics and Science Education at Morgan State University. Dr. Ellington has been a mathematics educator for the past 20 years, and I have been particularly committed to promoting the mathematics education of African American students. She began her career as a secondary mathematics teacher in the Baltimore City Public School System and has worked as a mathematics lecturer in the Morgan State University Department of Mathematics. In addition to conducting research in diversity and equity in mathematics and STEM education, she worked as a mathematics/STEM professional development consultant for various school districts and organizations.

Chandralekha Singh is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Founding Director of the Discipline-based Science Education Research Center (dB-SERC) at the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently the Past President of the American Association of Physics Teachers. She obtained her bachelors and masters degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and her Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics from the University of California Santa Barbara. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, before joining the University of Pittsburgh. She has been conducting research in physics education for more than two decades. She co-led the US team to the International Conference on Women in Physics in Birmingham UK in 2017. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Association of Physics Teacher.