Chezare Warren

Professor/Scholar/Artist

Chezare A. Warren, PhD is an accomplished author, artist, and intellectual. He is an associate professor of education policy with a secondary faculty appointment in the department of teaching & learning at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College. Dr. Warren is also affiliated faculty in African American and Diaspora Studies and principal investigator of THE POSSIBILITIES PROJECT—an “arts informed knowledge hub” committed to advancing evidence-based Black education solutions. A scholar of race and intersectional justice and former secondary math teacher from Chicago, Dr. Warren is a 2019 National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Ford Postdoctoral Fellow and recipient of numerous national recognitions for his scholarship including two early career awards from the American Educational Research Association. He is a 2023-2024 TED-Ed Fellow, which culminated with a widely viewed TED talk published May 2024 on empathy—an area of his research for which Dr. Warren has published widely. Author of Centering Possibility in Black Education (Teachers College Press, 2021) and the award-winning Urban Preparation: Young Black Men Moving from Chicago’s South Side to Success in Higher Education (Harvard Education Press, 2017), Dr. Warren has written more than 45 peer-reviewed articles, reports, and book chapters. He is a widely sought-after consultant on issues of education equity, and has held visiting faculty appointments at Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, and New York University. For more information, visit www.chezarewarren.com.