Keisha Chin Goosby

Biography

Keisha Chin Goosby is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of the General Education Intern credentialing program in the Department of Teaching and Learning. Her research focuses on the educational experiences of undocumented, immigrant, and historically excluded students and the impact that mentors have upon them. As a scholar practitioner, she strives to be a critical, anti-racist mentor and educator who advocates for excluded students. Her career in education includes elementary and secondary teaching in Los Angeles and the Inland Empire. While earning her Ph.D. in Education at Claremont Graduate University (CGU), she taught and mentored secondary teachers in the M.A/credential program at CGU. Prior to joining LMU, she was a Training Director and the Associate Director of an undergraduate research training program at California State University Long Beach. She enjoys working with and learning from her students.

Education (3)

Claremont Graduate University: Ph.D., Education 2020

University of Southern California: M.A., Secondary Teaching 2014

University of California, Los Angeles: B.A., Sociology 1996

Social

Areas of Expertise (4)

Immigrant Students

Undocumented Students

Mentoring

Justice/Diversity/Equity/Inclusion

Affiliations (7)

• American Educational Research Association
• Association for the Study of Higher Education
• Pacific Sociological Association
• Sociology of Education
• California Council on Teacher Education
• Undocumented Alumni Association of UCLA
• Phi Kappa Phi