Francesca López

Francesca López is the Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy and professor of education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Pennsylvania State University. She has also served as the Ernest W. McFarland Distinguished Professor in Leadership for Education Policy and Reform and an associate dean in the College of Education at the University of Arizona. López aims to inform policymakers, school leaders, and teacher educators about policies and classroom practices that can mitigate inequities. Her research focuses on how teacher behaviors promote achievement and identity outcomes for Latinx youth in various educational settings. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment and Contemporary Educational Psychology, and is currently senior associate editor for the American Journal of Education and coeditor of the American Educational Research Journal. López received her PhD in educational psychology from the University of Arizona.

updated 2025