Vanessa Siddle Walker
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TitleSamuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Educational Studies
InstitutionsEmory University
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Vanessa Siddle Walker is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Educational Studies at Emory University and was president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in 2019–20.[1][2] Walker has studied the segregation of the American educational system for twenty-five years and published the non-fiction work The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools.[3][4][5]
In 1976, Walker graduated from Bartlett Yancey High School in Yanceyville, North Carolina.[6] She received her B.A. in education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed by both an M.Ed and Ed.D. from Harvard University.
