Kari Kokka

Kari Kokka (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. She studies student and teacher perspectives of social justice mathematics, STEM teacher activism and student engagement in mathematics classes. She has been an educator for the past 21 years, including ten years as a mathematics teacher organizer, instructional coach and member of the Coalition of Essential Schools and New York Performance Standards Consortium. She is co-founder of the Creating Balance in an Unjust World Conference on STEM education and social justice, former co-chair of Critical Educators for Social Justice and part of the Radical STEMM Educators of the Bay Area, People’s Education Movement and the New York Collective of Radical Educators. She is a former high school teacher and also worked at the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning and Equity. She completed her EdD at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, her MA with the Stanford Teacher Education Program and her BS in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University.