Na’ilah Suad Nasir

Na’ilah Suad Nasir is the sixth President of the Spencer Foundation, which invests in education research that cultivates learning and transforms lives. From 2008-2019, she held a faculty appointment in the Graduate School of Education and Department of African-American Studies at UC Berkeley, where she also served as Vice-Chancellor of Equity and Inclusion.

Dr. Nasir earned her PhD in Education Psychology at UCLA and was a member of the faculty in the School of Education at Stanford University. Her work focuses on issues of race, culture, learning, and identity. She is the author of Racialized Identities: Race and Achievement for African-American Youth and has published numerous scholarly articles.

Dr. Nasir is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Education and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). She serves on the L&S Advisory Board and is a board director of Stiles Hall, both at UC Berkeley. She also chairs the board of the National Equity Project.

Dr. Nasir resides in Evanston, Illinois.