Professional Experiences

Robin Brandehoff, Ph.D.

Spring 2024 – Present Assistant Professor Educational Foundations, University of Colorado Denver

                                    Oversees Justice, Equity, and Diverse Identities EdD Program

                                    Oversees Latinx Learners and Communities EdD Program

                                    Faculty Advisor for Doctoral Students of Color Student Organization

                                    Member of SEHD Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee

Teaching

                                    LDFS 7712*

EDFN 7400 Epistemologies*

LDFS 7712

CLDE 7310 (JEDI Section)*

CLDE 7320

EDFN 7500*

EDFN 1000

Fall 2020 – Fall 2023 Assistant Clinical Professor in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Education, University of Colorado Denver

                                    Oversees Latinx Learners & Communities EdD Program

                                    Oversees Justice, Equity, & Diverse Identities EdD Program

                                    Faculty Advisor for Doctoral Students of Color Student Organization

                                    Chair of SEHD Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee

                                    ThinqStudio Fellow (2021-2023)

Teaching

                                    CLDE 4020/5020 Responsive Classroom Communities

                                    CLDE 5030 Language Development for Multilingual Learners

                                    CLDE 5160 History & Law of Bilingual & Immigrant Education

                                    CLDE 1000 Language, Identity, & Power: International Perspectives

                                    CLDE 1000 Language, Identity, & Power: International Perspectives (Online)*

                                    CLDE 7310 Critical Race Theory: History, Theory, & Application*

                                    EDFN 4010/5010 Social Foundations & Cultural Diversity in Urban Education

                                    CLDE 5040/7040 Social Justice Liberation: Rehearsal for the Revolution*

                                    EDFN 7410 Power & Privilege: The Social Construction of Difference

                                    CLDE 7320 (Re)Claiming Dominant Narratives: History, Education, and Activism in Latinx Communities*

                                    STME 7030 Decolonizing STEM Spaces: Beyond Equity and Access* (Collaborated with colleague to develop course)

Fall 2016 – 2020         Program Director and Graduate Research Assistant, Pathways2Teaching.

Spring 2018                Instructor – EDHD 1930 Community-based Field Experience and Seminar, SEHD, University of Colorado Denver. 

Fall 2017                     Instructor – CLDE 1000 Language, Identity, & Power: International Perspectives, SEHD, University of Colorado Denver. 

Fall 2017                     Teacher Assistant – EDHD 1930 Community-based Field Experience and Seminar, SEHD, University of Colorado Denver.

Fall 2016                     Teacher Assistant – CLDE 1000 Language, Identity, & Power: International Perspectives, SEHD, University of Colorado Denver. 

2014 – 2016                Assistant Administrator, Pioneer Technical Center, Madera County of Education. Assistant principal & head of curriculum development. 

2006 – 2016                Classroom teacher (6-12) in both public, charter alternative, and homeschool programs in California.  Areas taught: English and English as a Second Language (7-12), creative arts (7-12), and leadership (9-12). 

2009 – 2012                Program Grant Coordinator and Director of Afterschool Programming (grades 2-5), Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center, San Francisco Unified School District: ExCEL, Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary, and ASPIRANET.

2006 – 2008                Counselor and Behavior Specialist, The Painted Turtle.

2001 – 2005                Educational Outreach Coordinator and Executive Assistant, Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts, Whittier College.

2005                            Team Teacher: Paradigm Shift in the Arts 300, Theatre and Communication Arts Department, Whittier College.

2004                            Team Teacher: Freshmen Writing 101, Theatre and Communication Arts Department, Whittier College.

1999 – 2006                Educational Outreach Coordinator, Administrative Assistant, and Board Member, Inter-Community Blind Center of Whittier. 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators 2024 – ISTE.org and ASCD, May 13th, 2024. (15-week program)

Diversifying the Teacher Workforce – AACTE, Aurora, CO. February 15, 2024.

Community Storytelling Workshop (Invited guest and I brought along two doctoral students to join me) – The Center for Applied Theatre, Mirror Image Arts and Bochatey Foundation, Denver, CO. August 2023.

NCFDD Faculty Success Program Fellow – University of Colorado Denver, 2023.

ThinqStudio Fellow – University of Colorado Denver, 2021-2023.

R.A.C.E. Mentoring 2021, Dr. Donna Y. Ford and Dr. Michelle Frazier Trotman Scott

Equity Certificate Program – University of Colorado Denver, Dr. Angell and Dr. Viveiros, December 2020. 

Pathways2Teaching: A Grow Your Own Teacher Program, Dr. Margarita Bianco, CCSSO 2017.

Publish Not Perish, Dr. Donna Y. Ford and Dr. Ramon Goings, August 2017. 

SERVICE: SEHD

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – Committee Chair, 2021-Present

Leading “Our Voices” Initiative, providing listening sessions for marginalized students, faculty, and staff to share their experiences at CU Denver in a space purposefully created to elevate voices and be as safe a space as possible. Working with Office of Equity and Inclusion on various initiatives. Chair, 2022-Present. 

Doctoral Students of Color – Faculty Advisor, Spring 2020-Present

Faculty advisor for the Doctoral Students of Color student group at University of Colorado Denver. Responsibilities include mentoring board members, attending all meetings (membership, board, dean’s, committee, etc.), supporting students in developing and executing their annual research symposium, and supporting ongoing events each year including our invited speaker series, alumni events, and writing support events. 

Fourteener Writing Summit with SEHD and Doctoral Students of Color – Organizer and Facilitator, Spring 2022-Present

Co-created, organized, and executed the Fourteener Writing Summit, a 14-day writing challenge where Doctoral students are grouped in a small writing cohort with a faculty mentor to build community, share resources and ideas, commit to daily check-ins, and to write daily. As the lead for this event, I recruited faculty mentors and supported their work by offering resources, email check-ins, and a debrief after the Summit (for both faculty and students). I co-lead this event with Dean Bauer and the DSoC President. 

DRP Seminar Mentor, Fall 2022 

Attended the DRP Seminar to listen, give advice and feedback to doctoral students as they presented their elevator speeches for their DRP proposals. 

Religious Observances: Guiding Principles & Practices, Fall 2022

In response to a doctoral student experience of religious oppression inflicted by a faculty member, I was invited to join a working group to discuss potential policy around religious observances in SEHD and the wider campus community. In collaboration with the student and Associate Deans Jefferson and Bauer, we established guiding principles and practices for SEHD faculty to consider implanting. Our goal is for these practices to be put into effect and to revisit outdated campus policies regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. 

Inclusive Excellence Council: Education, Curriculum, and Pedagogy – Summer 2022

Invited to the council by Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, I and an SEHD colleague are supporting Dean Jefferson’s work in archiving models of inclusive and equitable curriculum and pedagogy from around the country and building a proposal for this work to move forward. Responsibilities also include presenting this work to the council, receiving feedback, making edits based on that feedback, and providing feedback to other groups within the council. 

CLDE Hiring Committee – Spring 2022

Served on the hiring committee for CLDE in Spring 2022. Reviewed applications, interviewed applicants, offered campus tours, and supported the committee in hiring Ester de Jong (Full Professor).

SERVICE: BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

Executive Officer, Core Member, and Co-Chair of Research and Development – Grow Your Own Collective.

My work with this national organization includes speaking at conferences about Grow Your Own Teacher programs, strategies, and best practices; conducting site visits and research at affiliate sites including Seattle, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; Waianae, Hawai’i; and Denver, Colorado; publishing work on grow your own models and critical  frameworks for successful programming; and planning for and executing our national pre-conference for NAAC in 2019. Fall 2016–Present.

Co-President, Board Member, and Grant Writer – Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, Inc. 

As part of my work with this international organization, I help to organize and host our annual conferences which includes event planning, conference proposal vetting and communications, organizing visiting artist residencies and volunteers, conducting events for our journal and research, and writing grants to continue our work. Additionally, I support ongoing virtual community events, international research presentation panels, and our peer-reviewed journal, among other board responsibilities. Fall 2018 – Fall 2023.

AESA 2022 Program Committee Member

Invited to join the AESA 2022 Program Committee and to support in reviewing proposals for the upcoming conference. Spring 2022-Spring 2023.

Editorial Board Member

Editorial board member of the Handbook of Research on Challenging Deficit Thinking for Exceptional Education Improvement, edited by Richard D. Williams, (2021). 

Advising Board Member – UnleashedTTT.

I serve in an advising role for UnleashedTTT, which is a non-profit organization aimed at rehabilitating at-promise youth in juvenile detention facilities through therapy work and trainings with service dogs. These youth are trained to work with and nurture therapy dogs and their in-facility trainings offer pathways to an occupation in the field once they have exited the facility. 2018-2023.

SERVICE: INTER/NATIONAL

Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies 2024 – Manuscript Review

  • Invited to review multiple manuscripts

Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress 2024 – Manuscript Review

  • Invited to review multiple manuscripts

Proposal Reviewer for AERA (2025) Conference – Division B, Section 6

  • Responsible for reviewing 8 paper proposals.

Chapter Reviewer 2024 – for Light a Fire and Watch it Burn: Disruptive Qualitive Methods in Education Research, Meyers Press.

Denver Venom Conference 2023 – Event Coordinator

  • Responsible for conference support and organization
  • Day of responsibilities include working with vendors, organizing volunteers, registration, and supporting additional event work as needed

Proposal Reviewer for AERA (2024) Conference – Mentorship and Mentoring Practices Sig and Critical Educators for Social Justice Sig.

  • Responsible for reviewing 12 paper and panel proposals.

Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed 2023 Indianapolis In-Person and Online Conferences

  • Hosting, chair, and discussant for 3+ sessions throughout the day
  • Planning and organizing conferences from inception to execution with online and in-person conference teams

Conference Proposal Reviewer for Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed (2023) Conference 

  • Responsible for reviewing international paper, workshop, and symposium session proposals.

AESA 2022 Program Committee Member

  • Invited to join the AESA 2022 Program Committee by President Elect and Program Chair
  • Supports conference by reviewing proposals for the upcoming conference


Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed 2022 Chicago Online Conference

  • Hosting, chair, and discussant for 3+ sessions throughout the day
  • Planning and organizing conference from inception to execution with online conference team

Denver Venom Conference 2021 – Event Coordinator

  • Responsible for conference support and organization
  • Day of responsibilities include working with vendors, organizing volunteers, registration, and supporting additional event work as needed

AERA 2021 Conference – Chair 

  • Students, Teachers, and Young Artists: Their Burgeoning Identities and Embodied Learning (Roundtable: SIG Advanced Technologies for Learning – April 8, 2021)
  • Practical Approaches for Youth Mentoring (Roundtable: SIG Mentorship and Mentoring Practices – April 11, 2021)

Proposal Review for PTO Journal 2022

  • Responsible for reviewing incoming article and artistic submissions to the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal. 

Conference Proposal Reviewer – IAFOR 2023 International Conference.

  • Responsible for reviewing fifteen international paper session proposals. 

Proposal Reviewer for AERA 2021 Conference – Mentorship and Mentoring Practices Sig. 

  • Responsible for reviewing six paper proposals.

Proposal Review for PTO Journal 2020

  • Responsible for reviewing incoming article and artistic submissions to the Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Journal. 

Proposal Reviewer for AERA 2020 Conference – Mentorship and Mentoring Practices Sig. 

  • Responsible for reviewing nine paper proposals and two symposium sessions.

Conference Proposal and Scholarship Reviewer – Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed 2020 Conference.

  • Responsible for reviewing twenty international paper, workshop, and symposium session proposals, as well as reviewing scholarship applications from domestic and international applicants applying for travel and/or conference attendance grants.

Conference Proposal Reviewer – Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed 2019 Conference.

  • Responsible for reviewing twenty international paper, workshop, and symposium session proposals, as well as overseeing the proposal submission process, corresponding with applicants, and submitting conference session acceptance letters to all invited applicants. 

ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

Excellence in Teaching (IRC) Award 2024 for the School of Education and Human Development

Excellence in Teaching (IRC) Award 2024 for the University of Colorado Denver (Campus-wide Award)

Mentorship & Mentoring Practices SIG Dissertation of the Year Award, AERA, April 2022.

Program Distinction: The Red Marble Apple, Madera County Office of Education, June 2015.

Inter-Society Council Leadership Award, Whittier College, May 2005.  

Academic Distinction in Theatre and Communication Arts, Whittier College, May 2005. 

Academic Distinction in The Whittier Scholars’ Program, Whittier College, May 2005. 

Charles and Edris Cooper Endowed Drama Prize for the Outstanding Student in Theatre, Whittier College, May 2005. 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, Inc. – Co-President and Board Member

ThinqStudio – Fellow

National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity – Faculty Success Program Fellow

American Educational Studies Association (AESA)

American Educational Research Association (AERA)

Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in Education

Mentorship and Mentoring Practices – 2020-2021 Proposal Reviewer

Paulo Freire Sig

Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education

Division B: Curriculum Studies

Division G: Social Context of Education

Division H: Research, Evaluation, and Assessment in Schools