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Travis J. Bristol is an assistant professor of education at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley’s faculty, Dr. Bristol was a Peter Paul Assistant Professor at Boston University. He is a former student and teacher in New York City public schools and teacher educator with the Boston Teacher Residency program. Dr. Bristol's research is situated at the intersection of policy and practice and is centered on three interrelated strands: (1) district and school-based practices that support educators of color; (2) national, state, and local education policies that enable and constrain the workplace experiences and retention for educators of color; (3) the intersection of race and gender in schools. His research has appeared in such peer-reviewed journals as Urban Education, the American Educational Research Journal, and the Journal of Teacher Education.The National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the American Educational Research Association awarded Dr. Bristol dissertation fellowships in 2013. In 2016, he received the inaugural teacher diversity research award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. In 2019, Dr. Bristol received a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and an emerging scholar award from the Comparative and International Education Society, African Diaspora SIG. He is on the Board of Directors of Teach Plus; the National Center for Teacher Residencies; and the East Bay School for Boys.