Congratulations to WestEd’s Sharon Nelson-Barber, who is one of just 30 scholars nationwide invited to participate in the American Educational Research Association’s Education Research Knowledge Forum in February 2016.

The three-day forum, which concludes with a White House–hosted breakfast, will bring together leading education scholars and policy leaders to discuss cutting-edge education research.

Nelson-Barber directs the Culture and Language in STEM Education division of WestEd’s Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) program. Her research centers on understanding how the sociocultural contexts in which students live influence the ways in which they make sense of schooling in mathematics and science.