ColorEd Scholar

Assistant Professor at Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy |
Scholar of Race, Educational Justice, Inequality, and Upward Mobility

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

After an accident last Memorial Day left me with post-concussive syndrome and other injuries, I wasn't sure I'd graduate this spring, let alone find a job. But God! I'm now Dr. Mitchell and will be joining Duke's Sanford School of Policy as an Asst. Prof. this fall. So grateful!

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

Excited to share my op-ed on California's legacy admissions ban, discussing how this shifting standard moves the goalposts for upwardly mobile Black families.
#HigherEd #EducationalEquity #LegacyAdmissions

https://t.co/iT2AwPZwjs

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

@Matteothegreat Thanks so much!! Onwards and upwards my fellow doctor!!

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

I’m grateful for this feature and honored to join the Sanford and Duke community to further study how we can use education to drive equity, justice, and social progress.

[Sanford School of Public Policy @DukeSanford]

Welcome to new Duke public policy faculty member Garry S. Mitchell. He received his Ph.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. An inequality scholar, his work seeks to elevate our understanding of education
▶️ https://t.co/S5VkpSVtNo

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

@KDawnSeven Thank you!!

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

@ProfJeffries Thank you Prof Jeffries! I’ll be sure to do that and mention you recommended we connect. Wishing you a fantastic semester brother!

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

@Kaela_MFT Thank you Kaela!!! You’re up next!

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

@Lyfeoflyle Thank you Ashley!! I’m grateful 🙏

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

@Luke_Beige Thanks GK!!! Grateful for the support! Hopefully we can reconnect in person soon!

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

@miltoncosmo Thanks so much Milton!

[Floor Broekgaarden 💫 @FloorAstro]

@garrysmitchell is such an inspiring, trail blazing, and allround excellent researcher, community member and human! I’ve been so lucky to overlap with you in Cambridge and Sanford/duke is so lucky to have you!! Can’t wait to see what’s next 😊

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

@FloorAstro Floor! The feeling is more than mutual! So grateful to have shared time and a stage with you—I’ve learned so much. Cannot wait to see all the ways you change UCSD!

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

@fblount3 Thank you Sib!

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

@ScribnerUMCP Thanks so much, Cam! I hope you and the family are well!

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

@AbiaSKhan Thanks so much, Abia!

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

Grateful to be in such an enriching community of scholars

[Global Black Studies at Duke @DukeAAAS]

Garry S. Mitchell: Examining the Paths of Education

@DukeSanford welcomes new faculty member @garrysmitchell, Assistant Professor of Public Policy
https://t.co/Ktc2p2aNir

[Marius Kothor, Ph.D. @MariusKothor]

Happy to share that I am joining the faculty at Harvard University! I’ve accepted a TT position as an Assistant Professor in Studies of Women, Gender, & Sexuality and I start this fall on a fellowship. I’m so thrilled to continue my work on Togolese women’s history at Harvard.

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

It never ceases to amaze me the nooks and crannies that inequality will find. @_AdrienneCJ_ I always appreciate work like yours that compels us to contend with understudied areas of inequality and the following outcomes

[Adrienne Jones, Ph.D. @_AdrienneCJ_]

You’d be surprised how many suspended drivers experience clerical errors as they pursue driver’s license restoration. A non-trivial number of the drivers I interviewed for my dissertation described how these errors ultimately keep them in suspended status long-term.

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

@joycejkim Fantastic! Would love to read it!

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

@blackenthoughts Congrats bro!!

[ColorEd Scholar @garrysmitchell]

I’m deeply affected when I think of society’s many ways of short changing and robbing youth of their childhoods. Schools should work to enhance & fulfill childhood. In addition to educating, it takes radical intentionality to protect youth from society’s harm in its many forms.