Straus Center for Young Children & Families - Bank Street College of Education
Soyoung Park

Soyoung Park

Soyoung Park, PhD, is an affiliated faculty member at the Straus Center for Young Children & Families and the Director of Online Programs in Early Childhood and Childhood Special Education […]

Thania Gómez-Martínez

Thania Gómez-Martínez

Thania’s scholarship blends her rich background in sociology, crisis intervention, and community work to study-activism within Latine communities and their intersectionalities. She holds degrees in sociology from East Los Angeles […]

Xiaohan Zhu

Xiaohan Zhu

Xiaohan works on Sarika Gupta’s Racial and Gender Equity for Young Children with Disabilities in New York City study. She is a doctoral student at Fordham University in the Contemporary […]

Cristina Medellin-Paz

Cristina Medellin-Paz

Cristina Medellin-Paz’s research examines the systems and structures that support the early childhood workforce through professional development, leadership opportunities, and stackable credentials. As a bilingual/bicultural developmental psychologist, she applies a […]

Sarika Gupta

Sarika Gupta

Sarika’s research and practice center around the belief that all children, regardless of their ability level, have the right to access and participate in general education settings. She examines factors […]

Mark Nagasawa, Director, Straus Center for Young Children & Families, Bank Street College of Education

Mark Nagasawa

Mark’s scholarship is guided by the anthropology of education’s broad questions about the intergenerational transmission of—and conflict over—culture and the role schooling plays in social continuity and change. More specifically […]