Tiffany Mitchell Patterson Instructor in Racial Equity & Educational Justice Graduate Certificate Program

Bio

Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Ph.D., is a Manager of Social Studies at District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). Prior to joining DCPS, she served as an Assistant Professor of Secondary Social Studies at West Virginia University. She taught middle school social studies for 10 years in Washington, D.C., and Arlington, VA, and served as an adjunct professor in teacher preparation programs at local universities. In these roles, she taught a variety of university level courses including Elementary and Secondary Social Studies Methods, Research in Secondary Education, Teaching Diverse Learners, Education Equity, and Introduction to Critical Race Theory. Mitchell-Patterson earned her doctorate in Multilingual/Multicultural Education and Education Policy from George Mason University. Her research interests include racial and social justice in education, education activism, and teaching diverse Black histories, people’s history and underrepresented narratives in PreK-20 education. Advocacy, activism, intersectionality, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive education lie at the core of her work. Education is her revolution.