Daniel G. Solórzano
Professor, UC Los Angeles
DANIEL G. SOLÓRZANO, Ph.D., is the director of UC/ACCORD and a a
professor of social science and comparative education in the Graduate
School of Education and Information Studies at the University of
Califorina, Los Angeles. He is also a professor in the Chicana and
Chicano Studies department and Women’s Studies. His teaching and
research interests include critical race and gender studies on the
educational access, persistence and graduation of underrepresented
minority undergraduate and graduate students in the United States.
Solórzano has authored more than 60 articles, book chapters and reports
on issues of educational access and equity for underrepresented minority
populations in the United States. In 2007, he was awarded the UCLA
Distinguished Teacher Award. Solórzano received his Ph.D. in sociology of education from Claremont Graduate School.
