Rachel Estrella

Rachel Estrella is an education researcher, curriculum developer, facilitator, and teacher. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles, and bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley. She has more than 20 years of experience in research and evaluation, with work spanning education, youth development, racial equity, health equity, and community change.

Estrella is a co-author of Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing, written with Jane Margolis, Joanna Goode, Jennifer Jellison Holme, and Kimberly Nao. Originally published by MIT Press in 2008, the book received an updated second edition in 2017 and examines racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities in access to computer science education.