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Donald Easton-Brooks
Donald Easton-Brooks (born March 31, 1964) is an American educator, scholar of culturally responsive education and educational policy on the tenured faculty at the College of Education at the University of Nevada - Reno (Reno, Nevada), where he is Dean of the College of Education. Formerly, he was the the dean of the School of Education at the University of South Dakota. Easton-Brooks serves as a board member of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has serves of the editor board of the journal Urban Education and the Intersections Journal. Between 2015 and 2019, he served on the Board Member of the South Dakota Technology & Innovation (TIE). In 2014, Easton-Brooks was instrumental in co-creating and chairing the Oregon Educator Equity Advisory Group. He also served as the President of the Texas Chapter of the National Association of Multicultural Education.

Education
Donald Easton-Brooks was born Donald Ray Brooks in Port Author, Texas to parents Issac Brooks and Gloria Barnett. He attended to University of Texas El Paso before receiving his bachelor's degree in Sociology form Greenville University (Illinois) in 1988. He earned his masters in Early Childhood Special Education with an emphasis in multi-cultural families and his doctorate in educational leadership from the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Academic Positions
Before serving as dean a both the University of Nevada and the University of South Dakota, Easton-Brooks joined the College of Education and Business at Eastern Oregon University as Professor and Dean during the academic years of 2013 and 2014. Between 2010-2013, served as Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Education at Hamline University. From 2006-2010, Easton-Brooks was an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Departments of Teacher Education in the College of Education at the University of North Texas.

Scholarship
Easton-Brooks is known known as a critical cultural quantitative researcher, in which, he uses advanced statistical analysis to examine the impact of educational policies and practice on the academic experience and outcomes of students of color. He is instrumental in introducing Ethnic Matching to the field of education. His findings on this topic show that the academic scores of students of color are significantly higher in reading and mathematics when these students have at least one teacher of color in their academic career. His work ethnic matching and teacher quality have been used to influence policies both nationally and internationally. His work has also contributed to creating programs to increase equity in education and educators of color in serval states.

His body of scholarship includes peer-reviewed journal articles, chapters and books. His 2019 book: Ethnic Matching: Academic Success of Students of Color (Rowman & Littlefield) received the Phillip C. Chinn Multicultural Book Award by the National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME). In 2015, Easton-Brooks published the book State of Mind. He is a section editor for the Handbook on Research on the Impact of Teachers of Color through the American Educational Research Association (AERA).