Altheria Caldera

Altheria Caldera is a scholar, racial equity consultant, educator, and Senior Professorial Lecturer in the School of Education at American University. Her research and scholarship focus on ways educators can advance racial equity in schools. Specific areas of interest for Caldera include language and literacy, Black girlhood, and equitable educational policies. She is a former middle school English/Language Arts/Reading teacher with twenty-five years of experience in secondary and post-secondary education and had previously worked as an assistant professor of language arts and reading at Howard University, as director of Howard’s D.C. Area Writing Project, and as an Education Policy Fellow for the Intercultural Development Research Association. She has published nearly two dozen peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and co-edited the textbook “Ourselves in Our Work: Black Women Scholars of Black Girlhood” (with Toni Denese Sturdivant). Caldera is a proud first-generation college graduate, with a Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies from Texas Christian University, an M.Ed. in English Education from the University of West Alabama, and a B.A. in English from Stillman College.