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Community-Based Research on Equity, Activism, & Transformative Education | CREATE Center

The CREATE Center fosters community-based research on equity, activism, and transformative education among university-based researchers and community advocates. 

The CREATE (Community-based Research on Equity, Activism, & Transformative Education) Center fosters and networks equity-driven scholars and education advocates and activists who are committed to conducting and/or leveraging research that helps catalyze transformative public education for children, families, and communities highly impacted by the injustices of systemic racism and poverty. Center affiliates are part of an action-oriented, scholarly community that advances equitable and anti-racist educational practice, policy, and inquiry across four focal areas. These areas include protecting, reinvesting in, and revitalizing public education; dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline; forging and maintaining socially just educational partnerships; and developing public scholarship that contributes to the public good. Center affiliates include U-M faculty, students, and research staff, along with non-U-M scholars and community-based practitioners who are working nationally and internationally to promote justice-driven educational change and critical scholarship in ways that honor the voices, knowledge, assets, needs, and experiences of youth, families, and community members.

Our Staff

Camille M. Wilson, Ph.D.

Founding Director, CREATE Center
University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor
Professor of Educational Foundations, Leadership & Policy

Tonya Kneff-Chang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Educational Foundations and Policy

Mara Johnson

Graduate Student Research Assistant,
Doctoral Student, 
Educational Foundations & Policy

Eunice Agaba

Visual Communications Designer and Social Media Specialist,
Senior in the College of LSA

Oluwaseun Oyindamola Ogunleye

CREATE Center Intern
Masters Student,
Educational Equity, Justice, and Social Transformation,
School of Education