About The Contributors

Jeremy Benson has his PhD in Urban Education from the CUNY Graduate Center. His research interests center on comparative and interdisciplinary analyses of education and criminal justice policy and practice in relation to the shifting dynamics of the U.S. political economy. A former high school English teacher in New Jersey, he is currently a teacher educator and sociology professor at Hunter College and Brooklyn College in NYC.

Amy Brown is an educational anthropologist and a faculty member in the University of Pennsylvania’s Critical Writing Program. Her research focuses on race, gender and the impacts of privatization on public institutions. She brings five years of experience as a teacher in New York City public schools to her scholarship. Her book, A Good Investment: Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School, is currently under contract with the University of Minnesota Press.