Eric DeMeulenaere

Eric DeMeulenaere lives in the indigenous land of the Nipmuc (Central Massachusetts) where he teaches in Clark University’s Education Department. Prior to joining Clark University’s faculty, he taught middle and high school social studies and English in Oakland and San Francisco, CA.  In 2004, he co-founded and directed an innovative small public school in East Oakland that focused on social justice and increased academic outcomes for youth of color.  Before opening the school, Eric completed his graduate studies in the Social and Cultural Studies Program at U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education.  He works with urban school leaders and teachers nationally and internationally to transform their organizational school cultures and address social and racial inequities. Eric co-founded and directs an innovative doctoral program and an undergraduate major at Clark focused on community-engaged activist research.  Eric is the co-author (with Colette Cann) of two books Reflections from the Field: How Coaching Made Us Better Teachers (2013) and The Activist Academic: Engaged Scholarship for Resistance, Hope and Social Change (2020).