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Melinda Lemke

Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy
University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Critical/feminist policy studies; global displacement; gender-based violence (GBV); neoliberal reform; politics of education; public health and education

Portrait of Melinda Lemke, University at Buffalo K-12 education policy and reform expert.

Melinda Lemke is an expert on educational policy implementation, the politics of education, and structural violence.

She examines how educational policy, schools, and related systems address gender-based violence to center the health, well-being, and human rights of young women and girls. Lemke is an interdisciplinary scholar and has a previous career in K-12 urban public teaching and curriculum development.

She can speak to the media about the intersection between educational policy and public health interventions concerning adolescent gender-based violence, as well as aspects of forced displacement including human trafficking and refugee resettlement. Lemke also can speak to the media about K-12 social studies (i.e., gender) curriculum and the role of women in (educational) leadership.   

CONTACT:

Melinda Lemke, PhD
Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy
Affiliated Faculty, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education

NEWS ABOUT MELINDA LEMKE