Celebrating Equity and Inclusion in Graduate Education

​The Biden School is pleased to highlight doctoral student Calaia S. Jackson and her newly announced designation as a recipient of a 2023 Equity & Inclusion Graduate Student Fellowship, awarded by the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM). ​

This and other fellowships support the participation and travel of 40 graduate students, five young professionals, and five undergraduate students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds at the 2023 Annual Fall Research Conference in Atlanta on November 9-11. While at the conference, Jackson and the other fellows will network with one another, in addition to members of the APPAM policy council and diversity committee. ​

Jackson, a third-year student in the public policy and administration doctorate program at the Biden School, also works as a health policy research scholar, a national leadership program from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. ​

​Her primary research areas include education and social policy, focusing on public K-12 schools as well as state and local government policies and practices. ​​In her dissertation, Jackson will examine the civic, political, and health consequences of exposure to various discipline policies and practices in public schools and ways to inform more just and equitable policies. She is a first-generation scholar originally from Dallas, Texas.​