Roberta Soares

Roberta Soares is an assistant professor in equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. She holds a PhD in education sciences from the University of Montreal and was a Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) postdoctoral fellow in sociology at the University of Ottawa. She holds a master’s in sociology and bachelors’ degrees in social sciences and business administration from Brazil. From the combination of extensive university training and work experience in Brazil and Canada, her research and pedagogy take on sociology and education from a critical standpoint to understand issues of EDI, social justice, and decolonization in relation to different social categories, namely immigration, language, and race for youth in school. Her recent work explores the experience of young immigrants learning the language of schooling in a French-speaking context in Canada in terms of education and social inequalities. 

Roberta is a member of The Racialization of Asian International Students Collective.

• Ontario Canada
• Race & Anti-Racism