Darion Wallace

Darion A. Wallace, from Inglewood, CA, is a Ph.D. candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Education in the Race, Inequality, and Language in Education and History of Education programs. Darion’s dissertation journeys through the annals of history to explore how the early black education and anti-slavery movements challenged the politics of unfreedom experienced by 19th-century African Americans in California. Darion is a 2023 Stanford Presidential Award for Excellence through Diversity recipient, and his research has been funded by the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, the Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars Fellowship, and the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship