Bedelia Richards is a member of JFF’s work to create successful transitions for youth. For the Early College High School Initiative, she supports the needs of school developers through research on and documentation of selected school designs, practices, and student achievement outcomes.
Ms. Richards is an advocate on behalf of low-income minority youth in furthering their educational and occupational goals and has conducted and analyzed educational research designed to benefit minority students from low-income communities. She has worked as a career placement specialist in a Philadelphia high school serving low-income Latino students, conducted educational research as an intern at Public/Private Ventures, and served as a research assistant at the Center for Social Organization of Schools in Baltimore.
Ms. Richards has held a number of teaching positions at The Johns Hopkins University, where she is pursuing a Ph.D in sociology. Her dissertation, West Indian Roots & American Branches: Ethnicity, School Context and Academic Engagement among Afro-Caribbean Students, merges her desire to better understand the various sources of educational inequalities in schools and strategies for addressing them with a longstanding interest in highlighting the often-neglected experiences of black immigrants from the Caribbean. She holds a B.A. in sociology and Spanish from Temple University.
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