LATOYA J. BALDWIN CLARK CURRICULUM VITAE 1071 CLARK WAY PALO ALTO, CA 94304 PHONE: (215) 779-1690 [email protected] EDUCATION 2014 Ph.D. Stanford University Sociology 2014 J.D. Stanford Law School 2008 M.A. University Of Pennsylvania Criminology Thesis: “Placing Race in Context: Race, Neighborhood and Trust in the Police” Advisor: John MacDonald, Associate Professor of Criminology and Sociology & Chair, Department of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania 2002 B.S. University Of Pennsylvania Wharton School Of Business DISSERTATION “Race, Parenting, and Special Education Law” This dissertation is comprised of three article-length papers. The first paper theorizes how racial differences in parental economic, social and cultural capital can account for some of the racial disparities in restrictive educational placements for children in special education. The second paper uses the Foucaultian concept of discipline and applies it to an analysis of the Model Special Education Parental Rights document promogulated by the Department of Education. I show how the document steers some parents away from demanding rights towards accepting responsibility for educating children with disabilities. The third paper uses data collected through semi-structured interviews with middle-class black mothers and white middle class mothers of children with disabilities. I show the similarities and differences in how these two groups of Last Updated: May 2014 Page 1 of 4 mothers go about the work of developing emotional habitus in their children in order to resist the low status expectations and stigma associated with being black and being disabled, respectively. Co-Advisors: Shelley Correll (Sociology) and Prudence Carter (Education) Committee Members: Norman Spaulding (Law), Corey Fields (Sociology) FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS 2012 – 2014 Diversifying Academia, Recruiting $71,860 stipend + Excellence (DARE) Fellow tuition 2009 – 2012 Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Morridge $105,000 stipend + Family Fellow tuition 2010 California Bar Foundation Diversity $7,500 Scholarship, Morrison & Foerster Foundation 2007 – 2014 EDGE (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate $4,000 Education) Fellow TEACHING EXPERIENCE Summer 2014 Sole Instructor Topics in Sociology Stanford University Summer Pre-Collegiate Studies Summer 2013 Sole Instructor Can Law Fix Race? Stanford University Department of Sociology Winter 2011 Teaching Assistant Teaching in Diverse Classrooms Stanford University Prof. Arnetha Ball Winter 2010 Teaching Assistant Sociology of Education Stanford University Prof. Prudence Carter Winter 2009 Teaching Assistant Social Class, Race, & Health Stanford University Prof. Donald Barr Last Updated: May 2014 Page 2 of 4 Fall 2006 Teaching Assistant Introduction to Criminology University of Pennsylvania Prof. William Laufer PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS 2013 Baldwin Clark, LaToya. The Problem With Participation, THE MODERN AMERICAN: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY'S SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION DEDICATED TO DIVERSITY AND THE LAW 2012 Carter, Prudence, and LaToya Baldwin Clark, Social Reproduction, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DIVERSITY IN EDUCATION (James A. Banks, ed., 2012). 2009 “Cultivating Racial Capital: The Role of Racial Inequality in Black Middle-Class Parenting,” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA 2008 “Placing Race in Context: Race, Neighborhood and Trust in the Police” Presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Boston, MA PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2015 – 2016 Judicial Law Clerk San Francisco, CA Justice Goodwin Liu California Supreme Court 2014 – 2015 Judicial Law Clerk Oakland, CA Hon. Claudia Wilken Northern District of California Summer 2011 Education Pioneers Graduate Fellow San Francisco, Ca San Francisco Unified School District Department of Special Education Summer 2007 Samuel L. Fels Fellow Philadelphia, PA Juvenile Law Center 2004 – 2006 Program Coordinator Philadelphia, PA Wharton Undergraduate Division Last Updated: May 2014 Page 3 of 4 2002 – 2004 Analyst New York, NY UBS Financial Services, Inc. Philadelphia, PA Municipal Securities Group TEACHING INTERESTS Criminal Law Education Law Sociology of Law Race and the Law Criminology SERVICE & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Peer Reviewer, Management Science, 2011 Student Member, American Sociological Association Last Updated: May 2014 Page 4 of 4 .