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She is the author of Youth Held at the Border and Decolonizing Educational Research .
Patel is a recipient of the June Jordan Award for scholarly leadership and poetic bravery in social critique and is a national board member of Education for Liberation, a long-standing organization dedicated to transformative Education for and by youth of color.
She works extensively with societally marginalized youth and teacher activists.
Leigh Patel is an interdisciplinary researcher, an educator, a writer, and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
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