Courtney Mauldin is an Assistant Professor in the Teaching and Leadership Department in the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ School of Education. Her interdisciplinary research and scholarship illuminates how youth and girls of color use arts-based and literacy practices as methods for leadership, identity construction, and reimagining schools and communities.

With arts-based methods and inquiry central to both her research and teaching, Dr. Mauldin’s recent projects focus on Envisioning Black Girl Futures (CNY Humanities Corridor Award) alongside educators and community leaders as well as using critical arts-based approaches with youth to co-construct educator resources, influence school policy change, and integrate youth voice into the school setting in meaningful and innovative ways.

Her most recent publications are featured in Frontiers in Education, Journal of Educational Administration and History with chapter contributions to the Routledge Handbook of Critical Education Research as well as the Routledge text, Standing with Youth, Family, and Community Educational Leaders in School Leadership: Case Studies for Educational Equity and Justice.

Currently, Dr. Mauldin facilitates the Central New York Educators of Color Dialogue and runs the teen book club, The Breedlove Readers which she co-founded in ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ, NY in Spring 2020.

She maintains an active membership in the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the Association of African American Museums (AAAM) and serves as the Arts-Based Educational Research Program Chair within the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

George Theoharis, Ph.D., is a Professor of Educational Leadership and Inclusive Elementary/Early Childhood Education in the Teaching and Leadership Department at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ.

He has extensive experience as a principal and teacher. He previously served as Department Chair, Associate Dean for Urban Education Partnerships, and as the Director of Field Relations.

He coordinates the Inclusive Early Childhood and Special Education undergraduate program, the Ed.D. program in Educational Leadership focused on Leading Equitable Schools and the Education Studies minor. He co-runs the Baldanza Fellows program and various other engagement with schools across Central New York.