Na'ilah Suad Nasir is an educational researcher and the sixth president of the Spencer Foundation.[1][2] She was president of the American Educational Research Association in 2021–22. Previously she held several named professorships, including the Birgeneau Chair in Educational Disparities and the H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African-American Studies at UC Berkeley,[3] where she also served as the vice-chancellor of equity and inclusion.[2] She has also taught as a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.[4]