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Wed. 2:00PM-4:00PM (on-campus & by appointment)

Biography

Atasi Das is a justice-centered scholar and educator-learner. Her research interests include rehumanizing mathematics, transdisciplinary approaches to critical numeracy, anti-racist teacher education, and abolitionist teaching practices in STEM. As an educator with over a decade of experience, she promotes liberatory praxis – learning and doing for transformative social change. Atasi has worked as a classroom teacher in elementary schools as well as in teacher education programs at Brooklyn College and City College, cultivating insight into justice-centered STEM curriculum, assessment, and pedagogy. She earned a doctorate in Urban Education at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She holds a BS in Communication Sciences and Disorders from James Madison University, an MA in Intercultural Leadership and Management from The School for International Training, and an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Keene State College. Her writing has appeared in academic journals, such as the Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, and in edited volumes on STEM education. She formerly co-hosted and co-produced a podcast series entitled Abolition Science Radio. She has worked as an educator across rural and urban settings in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Bengaluru, India. Outside of academia, she enjoys tinkering with recipes, spending time in nature, and growing plants in her apartment.