Soo Hong
Dr. Soo Hong is Professor of Education at Wellesley College. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who explores the relationships between schools, families, and communities by focusing on the impact of race, class, and culture. She highlights the role of families and communities in school transformation efforts, emphasizing parent leadership, community organizing and what she describes as “teacher-family solidarity” in her research.
Hong is the author of Natural Allies: Hope and Possibility in Teacher-Family Partnerships (Harvard Education Press, 2019) and A Cord of Three Strands: A New Approach to Parent Engagement in Schools (Harvard Education Press, 2011). At the center of her research and teaching is a desire to develop action-oriented research that is grounded in the lived experiences of young people and families in urban schools. She is currently writing her third book, New Beginnings: Getting Teacher-Family Solidarity Right From the Start.