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Professor
Emily Alicia Affolter, PhD, is the director of and faculty for Prescott College's Sustainability Education Ph.D. Program, working with doctoral scholars on the nexus of social and environmental justice as enacted in teaching, leading, and learning. Prior to this role, she worked as a Senior Research Scientist and Equity Consultant at the University of Washington’s Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity. She earned her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus on Multicultural Education from the UW working alongside Dr. Geneva Gay, founder of culturally responsive teaching. Dr. Emily Affolter is a Fulbright-Hays scholar whose research focused on curricula combating xenophobia in the K-12 Spanish language classroom arena. Her current scholarship, dissemination, and facilitation highlight culturally responsive, equity literate, and sustaining pedagogies for teachers, faculty, and leaders in K-16 settings and STEM higher education. Additionally, Emily’s latest endeavors explore decolonizing research praxis and critical climate justice initiatives.