Dr. Edward (Eddie) Fergus is Professor of Urban Education at Rutgers University – Newark, with a distinguished career marked by his extensive scholarship on educational policy and outcomes, particularly focusing on Black and Latino boys’ academic and social engagement, disproportionality in special education and suspensions, and school climate conditions. He has published over four dozen articles, book chapters, evaluation reports, and five influential books, including “Skin Color and Identity Formation: Perceptions of Opportunity and Academic Orientation among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth” (2004), “Invisible No More: Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys” (2011), “Schooling For Resilience: Improving Trajectory of Black and Latino Boys” (2014), “Solving Disproportionality and Achieving Equity” (2016), and the forthcoming titles “Boyhood and Masculinity Construction in the US” and “Desegregating Ourselves.” Dr. Fergus has collaborated with over 150 school districts and state education departments across several states on educational equity and reform, and he serves on various boards and as an expert consultant for organizations such as the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.