Alice Ginsberg

Alice Ginsberg is Senior Research Specialist at the Samuel Dewitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity and Justice and The Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. She also serves as the Director of Programs, Partnerships and Strategy at the Collective Success Network (CSN), a Philadelphia-based non-profit that supports first-generation, low-Income college students. Alice specializes in issues of educational equity, urban education, teacher education, higher education, social justice teaching, culturally relevant pedagogy, and educational philanthropy. Alice has published eight books, including: Gender and Urban Education (Heinemann 2004), The Evolution of American Women’s Studies (Palgrave, 2007) Embracing Risk in Urban Education (Rowman and Littlefield, 2012), Transgressing Teacher Education (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022), and For the Love of Teaching (Teachers College Press). In addition, Alice has published dozens of peer reviewed articles in journals such as Teachers College Record, The American Journal of Evaluation, The Teacher Educator, Feminist Teacher, The Journal of Educational Controversy, among many others. Alice has authored or co-authored a number of Research Reports and Guides, such as A Quick Guide to Grant Writing for Minority Serving Institutions (2016), Leading from the Hyphen: A Conocimientos Movement to Integrate Mexican Studies into Texas Public Schools (2021), and An Untapped Opportunity: Registered Apprenticeship at Minority Serving Institutions (2022). Alice has taught in graduate courses in the teacher education and higher education programs at both The University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University. In addition to her academic work, Alice has self-published two books of poetry.