Justin P. Jimenez, Phd, Iac-Mp™ Email and Phone Number

Provide academic wellness advising to students, set academic goals, and create plans to achieve those goals. Develop curriculum and workshops on developing effective study skills, such as time management and test preparation. Provide guidance on self-advocacy through effective communication. Experience with addressing cultural and social barriers that first generation and students of color face in higher education. Advocate for policies and practices that promote equity and inclusion by liaising with student groups and identity-based centers on campus to increase resilience and holistic academic wellness. Coordinate undergraduate tutoring program and 70 undergraduate student staff. Enhanced professional development trainings by embedding dispositions for equity-based tutoring and accounting for implicit bias. Update marketing collateral by refreshing tutoring program literature to reach new audiences and increase brand awareness.

Develop and teach undergraduate and graduate courses on educational foundations including anthropology and sociology of schooling, culturally relevant pedagogies, cultural politics of diversity, emotion and activism, feminist and gender theories in education, contemporary issues in immigration, healing justice, philosophies of education. Overhauled Educational Studies Graduate Program curriculum by developing requisite courses and orientations in critical inquiry, research methods, community engagement, advocacy, and equity. Advisor to undergraduate and graduate students. Methods and conceptual consultant for graduate theses. Integrate research, community engagement, and teaching activities through research practice partnerships with community organizations to identify questions for praxis, further dialogue, and strategic social change.Honored with multiple commendations including "Significant Impact on Intellectual and Personal Development of the Undergraduate Experience” and “Exceptional Course Development and Instruction" from the Tufts University Office of Institutional Research. Performance reviews consistently demonstrate teaching and facilitation practices exceed departmental averages and underscore strength in building constructive and collective capacity within groups.

Administered peer teaching program for Experimental College, an interdisciplinary unit for experiential learning at Tufts University. Designed curriculum, recruit undergraduate students, and lead seminar for effective facilitation, mediation, and teaching for social change. Mentored graduate students for Gittleman Teaching Fellows. Spearhead strategic planning and outreach to other entities on campus. Curate events and resources for productive dialogue and reflective listening.

Designed and implemented research activities to examine dispositions for equity-based teaching through the affective domains of instruction and pedagogy. Supervised and mentored a team of five researchers, including providing guidance on research methodologies, data collection and analysis, and interpretation of results. Identified and pursued funding opportunities to support research on equity-based teaching, including writing grant proposals and developing partnerships. Facilitated "knowledge communities" to share wisdom of praxis. Disseminated research findings presentations at conferences (American Educational Research Association, among others) and community-based forums. Collaborated with education faculty to integrate equity-based teaching discourses and practices into teacher preparation curricula and courses. Provided expertise on equity-based teaching and culturally sustaining social-emotional learning to educational institutions, community organizations, activists, and policymakers at the local, state, and national levels. Mediated conflicts among teachers and other practitioners who experience identity-related stress versus those who do not. Delivered professional development trainings that support in-service teachers and other educational practitioners in racial literacy and participatory action research.

Overhauled prerequisite courses on sociocultural foundations of education (school and society; culture, schools, and communities) courses for teacher candidates, including developing new curriculum materials and assessments that center intersectional analyses. Delivered and sustained an ethos of critical inquiry that engaged students and fosters analysis and advocacy about issues related to equity and social justice. Consistently rated highly in student evaluations of teaching which emphasized exceptional ability to communicate complex ideas related to power, diversity, and social justice in a clear and accessible way. Praised for innovative and interactive teaching style, promoting conditions for a constructively critical, creative, and caring community of learning.

Developed and facilitated a professional development course for educational practitioners on reimagining culture and cultural competence in education in a local-global context. Course on critical and liberatory discourses and praxes in education.

Provided technical expertise for Semillas Digitales – Digital Seeds, a capacity building research initiative to engender more innovative modes of teaching and learning, through digital literacy and technology integration, in rural Nicaragua. Appraised the value and impact of emerging and learner-centered technologies and practices to help foster critical thinking and foundational literacy skills for lower primary grades (first – fourth); conduct comprehensive and critical analyses. Co-developed research initiative’s monitoring and evaluation system, employing a participatory action methodology.

Resident advisor to first year students in Fisher Hassenfeld College House. Provided an enriching and supportive environment conducive to student well-being. Lead facilitator of the Goldberg Media and Communications Program.

Awarded competitive fellowship for Turkish Language and Central Asia regional studies: valued at approx. $35k. Coursework and research endeavors will address Turkish cultural aesthetics and diasporic nuances. Othering studies.

Analyzed and evaluated studies on literacy and numeracy for policy briefs, capacity development activities and presentations for ongoing institutional initiatives and events. Copyeditor on the nature of participation in adult learning and education for the Global Report on Adult Learning and Education. Augmented organization’s Effective Literacy Practices database through the development of germane case studies encompassing evidence-based and innovative methodologies. Assisted delegation of educational professionals from Nigeria to reimagine non-formal education sector.