The Urban & Diverse Learning Environments concentration prepares future researchers, educators, community organizers, policymakers, and youth-focused change agents to understand and disrupt the contradictions underpinning educational and broader socioeconomic disparities. Our faculty actively engage in studying and challenging the social, political, and economic forces that bear on what is often labeled as “urban schooling,” and shape the contradictions faced by youth, families, teachers, and educational leaders in these diverse learning environments that so often can be characterized by both oppression and resilience.