{"id":10004,"date":"2026-08-10T15:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/?page_id=10004"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T21:22:47","slug":"faculty-profile-nakia-gray-nicolas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/faculty-profile-nakia-gray-nicolas\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty profile: Nakia M. Gray-Nicolas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nakia M. Gray-Nicolas<\/span>,<\/span> EdD<\/p>\n

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Associate Professor of Educational Leadership<\/em><\/p>\n

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Office Information:\u00a0<\/strong>
033F Powdermaker Hall
phone: 718-997-5239
Website:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Education\/Degree:\u00a0<\/strong>
EdD New York University<\/p>\n

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About<\/p>\n

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Nakia M. Gray-Nicolas, EdD., is an associate professor of Educational Leadership in the Educational and Community Programs department of the School of Education at Queens College, CUNY. Her scholarly research examines college readiness, access, and the persistence of traditionally marginalized students; distributed leadership and community engagement; and the intersectionality and experiences of Black women in educational leadership and academia. Her research, teaching, and service commitments focus on work that disrupts educational inequities. Dr. Gray-Nicolas is the 2023 winner of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division\u00a0<\/span><\/span>A<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Emerging Scholar Award. Her scholarship has been published in book chapters and journal articles in\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>Race Ethnicity and Education, Journal of Cases in Education Leadership, Journal of Education Human Resources, Journal of School Leadership, Education Policy Analysis Archives, and the <\/span><\/span>International Journal of Qualitative Studies.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>She earned an EdD in Educational Administration from New York University, an\u00a0<\/span><\/span>MSEd<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in English Education (7-12) and an\u00a0<\/span><\/span>MSEd<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in Special Education (7-12) from Syracuse University, and a BA in English from Cornell University.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Professional Activities<\/p>\n

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Secretary,<\/span>\u00a0Division A, AERA<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Associate Editor<\/span>, Journal of School Leadership<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Viano, S., & Gray-Nicolas, N. M. (2024). Problematizing the Black-White racial dichotomy inherent to high school graduation rate accountability: A mixed methods critical policy analysis.\u00a0<\/span>Education Policy Analysis Archives<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>32<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14507\/epaa.32.8577<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gray-Nicolas, N.M. (2023) College readiness and critical structural capital: Mediating the dual meanings of readiness at a transfer community high school,\u00a0<\/span>International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education<\/span><\/i>, DOI:\u00a0<\/span>10.1080\/09518398.2023.2233928<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dionisio, R. J., & Gray-Nicolas, N. M. (2023). Unlearning Discipline: Increasing Opportunities and Addressing Disproportionality in Discipline for Black and Latinx Students. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 26(1), 58-70.\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/15554589221150415<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Gray-Nicolas, N. M., Modeste, M. E., Miles Nash, A., & Tabron, L. A. (2022). (Other) sistering: Black Women Education Leadership Faculty Aligning Identity, Scholarship, and Practice Through Peer Support and Accountability.\u00a0<\/span>Journal of Education Human Resources<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>40<\/span><\/i>(1), 90-113.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/b>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3138\/jehr-2021-0017<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\uf0e0<\/span><\/span>nakia.graynicolas@qc.cuny.edu<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>Office Information:\u00a0033F Powdermaker Hallphone: 718-997-5239Website:Education\/Degree:\u00a0EdD New York UniversityAboutNakia M. Gray-Nicolas, EdD., is an associate professor of Educational Leadership in the Educational and Community Programs department of the School of Education at Queens College, CUNY. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[131],"class_list":["post-10004","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ecp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}