Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education
Faculty & Staff Bios
- Rhoda Rae
Gutierrez | Program Director
Rhoda Rae Gutierrez has worked in the not-for-profit sector in Chicago for more than ten years on different issues including youth leadership development, women’s philanthropy, and immigrant and refugee rights. She is a former board member of the Crossroads Fund, a public foundation that supports social change work in Chicago, and Pintig Cultural Group, a Filipino American political theater organization. Rhoda is also the former Chicago chapter coordinator of GABRIELA Network, which organizes programs related to the Filipina diaspora, neoliberal globalization, and the trafficking of Filipino women and children. Before joining UIC, she served as the graduate fellow for DePaul University’s Institute for Teacher Development and Research.
- Eric (Rico) Gutstein, PhD | Faculty Associate
Eric (Rico) Gutstein teaches mathematics education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His interests include teaching mathematics for social justice, Freirean approaches to teaching and learning, and urban education. He has taught middle and high school mathematics. Rico is a founding member of Teachers for Social Justice (Chicago) and is active in social movements. He is the author of Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice (Routledge, 2006) and the co-editor of Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers (Rethinking Schools, 2005). He currently works as a mathematics support staffperson at the Little Village/Lawndale High School for Social Justice, co-teaching and developing social justice mathematics curriculum with students, teachers, and community members.
Pauline Lipman is Professor of Policy Studies in the College of Education, University of Illinois-Chicago. She came to UIC in the fall of 2006 from DePaul University where she was Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Foundations in Education and Director of the Institute for Teacher Development and Research, the predecessor to the Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education. Pauline’s research focuses on race and class inequality in schools, globalization and urban development, and the political economy and cultural politics of race in urban education. She is the author of Race, Class, and Power in School Restructuring (SUNY, 1998), High Stakes Education; Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform (Routledge, 2004), and numerous articles on these topics. An advocate of activist and engaged scholarship, her current projects examine the relationship of school policy to neoliberal urban development in Chicago, particularly gentrification and displacement of communities of color. She is also a founder and active member of Chicago-area Teachers for Social Justice.
- David Omotoso Stovall,
PhD | Faculty Associate
David Stovall received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. Presently he is an Assistant Professor of Policy Studies in the College of Education and the Department of African-Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). His scholarship investigates four areas 1) Critical Race Theory, 2) concepts of social justice in education, 3) the relationship between housing and education, and 4) the relationship between schools and community stakeholders. Since 2003 he has worked with community organizations and schools to develop curriculum that address issues of social justice. He was a member of the design team at the Greater Lawndale/Little Village High School for Social Justice, which opened in the fall of 2005. He also serves as a volunteer social studies teacher at this school. Furthering his work with schools, communities, students, and teachers, Stovall is involved with youth-centered community organizations in Chicago, New York City and the Bay Area.