Pauline Lipman is a Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Director of the Collaborative for Equity and Justice in Education. Her teaching and research are rooted in her commitment to social justice and liberation. Drawing on radical political economy, critical geography, critical studies of race, and urban sociology, her interdisciplinary research focuses on race, class, and political economy of urban education. Specifically she focuses on the inter-relationship of education policy, white supremacy, racial capitalism, the coercive state, and neoliberal urban restructuring and possibilities for a new, radically democratic economic and political social order. She is the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, policy reports and several books on these topics. Her writing has been published and translated internationally including into Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Danish, and Polish. She also does collaborative research with community organizations to challenge neoliberal policies and organize for more just and liberatory education. Pauline teaches classes on Race and Capitalism, Globalization and Education, Political Economy of Urban Education, and Politics of Urban Education.