Edom Tesfa
Ph.D. candidate in education, Harvard University

I am on the job market. To view/download my CV, click here.I study how educational spaces can help create caring contexts of reception for immigrant youth in new destinations. My latest project is an ethnographic study of how African and Latin American immigrant youth and families in Maine – an emerging and rapidly-changing destination for asylum-seekers and refugees – experience care amid compounding crises.My research has been supported by the National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation, as well as the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Immigration Initiative at Harvard. I have presented my research across the U.S. and in Canada, Ireland, and Chile. I have taught courses on immigrant education, qualitative research methods, and critical participatory action research (CPAR).I will complete my Ph.D. in education at Harvard University in May 2025. I hold a B.S. in Foreign Service - Culture and Politics from Georgetown University and an A.M. in Education from Harvard. I am a second-generation Ethiopian American and the child of an asylee.Languages: English, አማርኛ, español, 汉语

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Edom Tesfa
Ph.D. candidate in education, Harvard University

I am on the job market. To view/download my CV, click here.

Peer-reviewed articles

“‘We do it all’: District immigrant parent liaisons as agents of reception." Journal for Multicultural Education. (with Rebecca Lowenhaupt; forthcoming)“Caring through crisis: Newcomer students and their educators during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Voices in Urban Education 51(1), 90–99. (With Rebecca Lowenhaupt)

Policy and practice briefs

“Educator brief: Supporting Black immigrant-origin students & their families.” Immigration Initiative at Harvard.“Connectivity and creativity in the time of COVID-19: Immigrant serving districts respond to the pandemic.” Immigration Initiative at Harvard. (With Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Julie Yammine, Melita Morales, Paulette Andrade Gonzalez, Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Jennifer Queenan, Dafney Blanca Dabach, and Roberto G. Gonzales)