Maisha Winn Voted AERA President-Elect
Her presidency begins at the conclusion of the association’s 2025 annual meeting.
Maisha T. Winn, the Chancellor’s Leadership Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis, has been voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Dr. Winn joins the AERA Council in 2024–2025 as president-elect. Her presidency begins at the conclusion of the association’s 2025 annual meeting.
Winn co-founded and co-directs the Transformative Justice in Education Center at the University of California, Davis. A former elementary and high school English teacher, Winn examines the intersections of language, literacy, and youth culture. She specifically looks at how nondominant communities have engineered teaching and learning communities at the contours of and adjacent to school settings.