Isabella C. Brown is a PhD candidate in the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education. Her research focuses on systemic barriers impeding agency in decision-making spaces for Black parents navigating the special education system. Her work builds upon a desire to inform policy and disrupt the understudied phenomenon of inequitable special education milieus to yield truly collaborative parent-school partnerships for the most marginalized. She believes ethnographic research is critical to the contextualization of how Black and Brown parents traverse the undercurrent of special education procedures.
In addition to her scholarship, Isabella is the recipient of many fellowships and awards including Alumni of the Year, The Distinguished Student Award. She is a lecturer in the Department of Equity, Leadership, and Instructional Technologies at the Graduate College of Education at SF State. Isabella developed the curriculum for the course titled "Education, Disability, and Race: A Critical Inquiry for Equity, Justice, and Liberation."
