Tanishia Williams Peterson
Tanishia Williams Peterson is an interdisciplinary scholar, educator, and policy strategist whose work sits at the nexus of race, education, and structural power. She currently serves as the Inaugural Education Stratification Fellow at the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy, where she leads research that illuminates how racial hierarchies shape educational opportunity, policy, and practice. Tanishia has previously served as a principal, superintendent, and university professor, and her scholarship has been featured in peer-reviewed journals, public policy briefs, and national media.
Tanishia holds multiple graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Public and Urban Policy, and Master's degrees in data visualization, organizational theory, education leadership, and education policy analysis—each grounding her in the theoretical, practical, and visual dimensions of systemic inquiry and change.
She joined the Roots ConnectED board to lend her service to the steady, deliberate work of making belonging, inclusion, and justice not lofty ideals, but lived realities schools everywhere.