Meet Our Team Working together to understand and transform disparities in school discipline Founding Director Richard O. Welsh Associate Professor Education and Public Policy Vanderbilt University Faculty Luis A. Rodriguez Assistant ProfessorEducational Leadership and Policy StudiesNYU Graduate Researchers Kathryn James McGraw Ph.D. StudentEducation Policy and LeadershipVanderbilt University Tia R. Williams Ph.D. StudentEducation Policy and LeadershipVanderbilt University Blaise Joseph Ph.D. StudentEducation Policy and LeadershipNYU Neha Sobti, Ed.D. Ph.D. StudentAdministration, Leadership, and TechnologyNYU SDL in the Press Featured Chalkbeat: Four reasons why schools are facing crippling shortages Luis A. Rodriguez in the New York Times: Understanding COVID’s impact on school discipline Major grant from the William T. Grant Foundation awarded to Welsh and team for equity-centered research-practice partnerships Richard Welsh featured in Vanderbilt University’s Research News for equity-lab