Ali Michael

As the Co-Director of the Race Institute forK-12 Educators, Ali Michael, PhD, works with
schools and organizations across the country to help make research on race, Whiteness, and
education more accessible and relevant to educators. Fall 2022, Ali released her two most
recent publications, including Our Problem, Our Path: Collective Anti-racism for White
People, co-authored with Dr. Eleonora Bartoli (Corwin, 2022). Her other new release is the
young adult adaptation of White Fragility, co-adapted with Toni Graves Williamson,
entitled White Fragility: Why Understanding Racism Can be so Hard for White People
(Beacon Press, 2022). Ali is the author of Raising Race Questions: Whiteness, Inquiry and
Education (Teachers College Press, 2015), winner of the 2017 Society of Professors of
Education Outstanding Book Award. She is co-editor of the bestselling Everyday White
People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories (2015, Stylus Press), the bestselling
Guide for White Women who Teach Black Boys (2017, Corwin Press), and Teaching
Beautiful and Brilliant Black Girls (2021, Corwin Press). Ali sits on the editorial board of
the journal Whiteness and Education. She teaches in the Diversity and Inclusion Program at
Princeton University and the Equity Institutes for Higher Education at the University of
Southern California. When she is not writing, speaking, or training, Ali is striving to be an
anti-racist co-parent to two amazing kids.