Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos

Affiliation

University of Georgia

Track

Biography

Dr. Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos has spent approximately 25 years in education including over 15 years in academia. He is currently the Goizueta Endowed Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Latino Achievement and Success (CLASE). He has previously served as the Murchison Endowed Professor and Chair at Trinity University, Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Latinx Education Research Center (LERC) at Santa Clara University, and Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. He also served as a Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, and Visiting Scholar at both USC Rossier School of Education and UC Berkeley with a courtesy affiliation at PACE at Stanford University. He specializes in education policy and finance equity for traditionally marginalized populations. He began his professional career as an urban bilingual school teacher and is a son of Mexican migrant farmworkers.