Django Paris

Django Paris is the inaugural James A. and Cherry A. Banks Chair of Multicultural Education and Director of the Banks Center for Educational Justice at the University of Washington's College of Education. His work centers Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, and Pacific Islander communities' resurgence, decolonization, and justice movements in education. Paris holds a professorship with a focus on culturally sustaining pedagogies and equity studies.

• Research Interests: Equity Studies, Literacy, Qualitative Research Methods, Teacher Education
• Director of Banks Center for Educational Justice
• Editor of the Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies book series

Key publications include Education in Movement Spaces (2020), Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies (2017), and Humanizing Research (2014). His scholarship bridges classroom practice with grassroots social movements.