Jovani Azpeitia

Research

Jovani Azpeitia is a PhD Candidate at the University of Washington. His research investigates how the way we frame educational inequality shape the way we understand it and try to address it. More specifically, how U.S. sociocultural contexts impact marginalized students’ educational experiences and how schools can leverage the cultural strengths and assets of marginalized students to promote positive academic change. He is a recipient of the highly coveted National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Prior to graduate school, Jovani worked at a college access program serving low-income, first-generation, Latine youth, and collaborates with Seattle Public Schools on projects related to racialized perceptions of school quality. He received his BA in Psychology with a minor in Chicano/Latino Studies from Pomona College and his MS in Social/Personality Psychology from the University of Washington.