Lori Delale-O'Connor

Lori Delale-O’Connor, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Center for Urban Education and Chair of the Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy. She currently teaches courses in qualitative methods, urban education, and the social contexts of education. Dr. Delale-O’Connor’s research focuses on examining the connections between families, communities, and education across spaces with a particular focus on fostering equity and justice for children and youth in urbanized educational systems. Lori Serves as a Co-PI on the STEM PUSH Network--an NSF funded INCLUDES Alliance working to leverage the power of pre-college STEM programs to broaden participation of Black, Latina/o/e, and Indigenous students in STEM, and, together with its partners, create systemic change in higher education admissions.