Meet the Editors
Dr. Nickie Coomer, Editor, is an Assistant Professor in the Education Department at Colorado College. She taught special education for ten years, working specifically with students labeled as having emotional disturbances. While teaching, she also worked as an educational liaison for adjudicated youth with educational disabilities in a residential facility. Before coming to Colorado College, she worked as a doctoral research assistant for the Great Lakes/Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center: one of four technical assistance centers supported by the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. She has also served as a doctoral (and now Associate) Editor for the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education for five years, and as the managing editor for Multiple Voices: Disability, Race and Language Intersections in Special Education.
Dr. Chelsea Stinson, Editor, is Assistant Professor of Inclusive Education in the Foundations & Social Advocacy Department at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Cortland. Dr. Stinson's research, teaching, and service focus on the experiences of emergent bilingual students, families, communities, school-community relationships, and teachers at the intersections of language, race, disability, migration, policy, and education.
Dr. Paulo Tan, Editor, My research focuses on advancing intersectional disability justice in and through mathematics education. Prior to my academic career, I served as a public school middle-secondary mathematics teacher for ten years in culturally and linguistically diverse settings. My lived experiences with my son led me to pursue a doctorate in special education with an emphasis in mathematics education and I have been reckoning and challenging educational inequities and injustices ever since. My current and future scholarship includes building theories for abolitionist mathematics educational research and practices that center the brilliances of disabled students of color. I identify as Chinese-American, cisgender male, and non-disabled and am parent of three.
