Tom Malarkey

Director, Strategic Consulting

tmalarkey (at) nationalequityproject.org

Tom has worked with the National Equity Project since 1996 and specializes in equity-centered inquiry and design practice with teachers, schools and systems. He is a lead developer of our Liberatory Design and Learning Partnerships services. For the last twenty-five years, he has focused his work on urban schools, teachers, and students. He has taught high school English and first grade, and was the director of the Summerbridge Program in San Francisco, an academic empowerment program for middle school students.

Tom holds an M.A. in international development education from Stanford University and is currently working on his Ph.D. in Education at UC Berkeley, focusing on the dynamics of collaborative teacher inquiry and its relationship to equity and urban school change. In addition to being a school and leadership coach at the Project, he has co-led the Teacher Inquiry Project and led the Inquiry for Equity Network. Read his article, “Inquiry for Equity: What Does it Mean for Teacher Research?”

Follow Tom on Twitter @tommalarkey.