Jonathan Carroll is an emerging scholar and educator. His main research revolves around teacher education, racial identity, multicultural education, and the relationship between law enforcement and schooling. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University California Los Angeles (UCLA) Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences (GSE&IS). You can follow the ways he makes sense of life as an academic on his weekly blog entitled CLASS IS IN SESSION.
 
Jonathan grew up in Philadelphia and is the oldest of three children in a family full of educators. He studied anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania with the hopes of becoming a pediatrician, but gave in to his genes and pursued a career in education upon graduation in 1999. He later earned a Masters in Education at Drexel University and served as an elementary classroom teacher for four years before entering his doctoral program in 2006. It was during his time as a teacher that Jonathan became an author, writing the popular children’s book, Meet Julius Carmichael: First Day Blues.
 
In addition to his scholarly work, Jonathan continues to find ways to stay connected with students. He is in the process of developing Class Is In Session, a non-profit organization dedicated to mentoring and tutoring high school males of color to ensure that they matriculate to college.