Alexios Rosario-Moore, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Educational Administration

Department

Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations (LEPF)

Biography

My interest in educational research and social justice stems from my own schooling in under-resourced public schools, my upbringing within a multi-racial activist household, and my experiences as a justice-involved youth. I am a multi-disciplinary scholar focused on the educational, legal and epistemic apparatus that reproduce inequities in schools and communities.

I began my career in education as a youth organizer and teacher at El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice in Brooklyn, NY. As the Academic Director of Bard Early College in New Orleans I founded a college bridge program for opportunity youth. While serving as the Manager for Policy and Programs at Generation All, I advocated for neighborhood high schools and coordinated community engagement campaigns related to common enrollment and school facility development. As a fellow with Chicago United for Equity, I was the principal designer of the Vote Equity project and served on Mayor Lightfoot's Education Transition Committee.

Research Interests

• Disparate impact of COVID-19 on students and communities
• School leadership and local governance
• University-school partnerships
• College choice process
• Civic and legal education

Education

• Ph.D., Policy Studies in Urban Education, University of Illinois, Chicago
• M.F.A, Creative Nonfiction, The New School
• B.A., Liberal Arts, Eugene Lang College

Selected Publications

• Rosario-Moore, A., Graham, K. E.*, Mitric, S.*, & Avila, G.* (2023). Shocks to the System: COVID-19's Perceived Interference with the Academic Performance and Plans of University Undergraduates. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 15210251231156420.
• Rosario-Moore, A., & Rosario-Moore, E. (2022). Reckoning with (recent) history: reparatory service learning for transformative change. In Pursuit of Liberation: Critical Service-Learning as Capacity Building for Historicized, Humanizing, and Embodied Action. Advances in Service-Learning Series. Neumeth, E. (Ed.). IAP.
• Rosario-Moore, A., & Colar, B. K.* (2022). ‘Make sure we don't lose who we are': young Black men navigating the college choice process at majority-Black high schools. Race Ethnicity and Education, 1-21.
• Superfine, B., Rosario-Moore, A., and Dewitt, E. (2020). Governance, autonomy, and accountability in modern education reform: implications for educational equity. University of Memphis L. Rev., 50,4.
• Rosario-Moore, A., & Rosario-Moore, E. (2016). From the ground up: criminal law education for communities most affected by mass incarceration. Clinical L. Rev., 23, 753