Please join us at EPLHE's first Visiting Speaker Series event with Dr. Crystal Sanders.

“More Than Cookies and Crayons: What a Civil Rights Era Head Start Program Can Teach Us About Early Childhood Education and Social Justice."

About Dr. Crystal Sanders

Sanders is a nationally renowned researcher of African American History. Her work interrogates the intersection of the African American experience and educational justice.

She has won multiple national awards such as the 2017 Critics Choice Award from the American Educational Research Association and the 2017 New Scholar’s Book Award from Division F of the American Educational Research Association.

She is also the recipient of numerous academic accolades: The C. Vann Woodward Prize from the Southern Historical Association, the Huggins-Quarles Award from the Organization of American Historians, and the Equity Award from the American Historical Association.

Those interested in a discussion that places the African American journey toward educational equity into a proper historical context will enjoy Sanders' visit.