Sonya Horsford

Sonya Douglass Horsford is an associate professor of education at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Her research interests include the political and policy contexts of education leadership with a focus on school desegregation and education reform in the post-civil rights era. She is editor of three books and author of Learning in a Burning House: Educational Inequality, Ideology, and (Dis)Integration, which received a 2013 Critics’ Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association.