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"Students who dare to stay and persist through twelfth grade in schools of inadequate quality and resources have demonstrated high levels of motivation for rigorous education. Although they have been systematically and historically denied an adequate education, they have persevered ."
-Michelle FineMichelle Fine
Dr. Fine has been a director of the foundation since 2003. She is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). She has authored numerous books, articles and educational policy monographs. For the past twenty years, Michelle has conducted research on public school adolescents across the spectrum of economic backgrounds.
She is a member of Participatory Action Research (PAR) Collective, a coalition of activists, researchers, youth, elders, lawyers, prisoners and educators, who have launched projects on educational injustice, lives on the streets and under surveillance and the collateral damage of mass incarceration. Most projects have been situated in schools and/or community-based organizations struggling for quality education. She has won a number of national awards, including the Janet Helms Award from the Cross Cultural Roundtable and the Carolyn Sherif Award from the American Psychological Association. She currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Youth Engagement. Additionally, Michelle has testified as an expert witness in a number of legal cases involving access to public education.
Dr. Fine received a Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University (1980); M.Phil. In Psychology Teachers College, Columbia University (1979); M.A. in Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University (1978); and B.A. in Psychology, Brandeis University (1975).
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