Dr. Tanya Maloney is Keynote Speaker at Upcoming Black Lives Matter in Research Symposium

The Montclair State University Institutional Review Board (IRB) will virtually host Black Lives Matter in Research: Building Transdisciplinary Collaboratives and Approaches to Address Racism in Research on November 3 and 4, 2021.

Dr. Tanya Maloney, Assistant Professor in the Teaching and Learning Department is the keynote speaker on the second day of the symposium, November 4th.

Dr. Tanya Maloney is an assistant professor of secondary education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Montclair State University (MSU). Dr. Maloney co-directs the Urban Teacher Residency and the Newark Teacher Project programs with Dr. Bree Picower and in partnership with the Newark Board of Education and Orange Public Schools. She also co-coordinates the Critical Urban Education Speaker Series, a bi-annual event open to the public that brings leading educational scholars to MSU in an effort to develop attendees’ racial and political analysis.

Dr. Maloney began her career in education as a high school mathematics teacher at Robeson High School in Chicago, IL. Her qualitative research considers issues of race, racism, and justice in teacher education, leadership education, and mathematics education. Dr. Maloney’s work is published in Cognition and Instruction, Teaching and Teacher Education, the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, and the Journal of Research on Leadership Education.

Other speakers and moderators for the symposium from the College of Education and Human Services community include Dr. Michael Hannon, Associate Professor in Counseling, and Dr. Mayida Zaal, Associate Professor in Teaching and Learning.