Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj

Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj is a Professor of Education in the Department of Education at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education. She uses qualitative interviewing, ethnographic, and mixed-methods approaches to explore traditionally marginalized students’ and families’ experiences negotiating educational institutions and policies with a specific focus on immigrant-origin youth. In addition, she studies the ways that teachers, school- and district- leaders perceive and respond to challenges that immigrant-origin students and families experience in their schooling and their preparation to educate students of immigrant backgrounds. Sattin-Bajaj is author of Unaccompanied Minors: Immigrant Youth, School Choice, and the Pursuit of Equity (Harvard Education Press, 2014), Matching Students to Opportunity: Expanding College Choice, Access and Quality (co-editor with Andrew Kelly and Jessica Howell, Harvard Education Press, 2016), and Educating the Whole Child for the Whole World: The Ross School Model and Education for the Global Era (co-editor with Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, New York University Press, 2010).