Leana Cabral

Leana Cabral, PhD is a recent graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University in the Sociology and Education Program. She is a researcher at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Teachers College. (CPRE-TC). She previously worked as a Senior Research Associate at Research for Action in Philadelphia, and as a researcher at The Public Good as and the Black Education Research Center, both at Teachers College. Prior to pursing her PhD, Leana worked in the youth development field and in the Philadelphia Mayor's Office of Education.

Her research interests include the racial politics of public education, K-12 educational inequality, and historical perspectives on educational and social inequality. Her dissertation research centers the complicated interplay of history, racial politics, and community sensemaking to explore how racism and antiblackness are reproduced over time and in different public school contexts within Philadelphia.

In addition to her research interests, Leana is committed to supporting youth activists and organizers as she was one herself--which greatly shaped her world-view and political consciousness.

Leana holds a B.A. in Women's Studies from Spelman College.