Dr. Meixi, an assistant professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, has been selected as a 2023 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. She will receive a fellowship award of $70,000 to engage with research expenses for the fellowship period.

The fellowships are administered by the National Academy of Education, an honorary educational society, and they are funded by a grant to the Academy from the Spencer Foundation. The fellowship program has over eight hundred alumni who include many of today’s leading education researchers.  

During the fellowship, Meixi will engage with ways that Indigenous-led public schools are critical sites for experimenting and enacting educational sovereignty across generations amidst rapidly changing socioecological systems. Her work interweaves the learning sciences, comparative education, STEM learning, and trans-Indigenous futures with lands and waters. Her academic and life’s work are deeply informed by her relational commitments to the people and places who have watched her grow up.  

More information about Meixi and other NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows can be found on the National Academy of Education website.