Born in Washington D.C, raised primarily in New Jersey and New York, Marcella Runell Hall is a social justice education scholar. Hall received a doctorate in Social Justice Education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her dissertation is entitled, "Education in a Hip-Hop Nation: Our Identity, Politics & Pedagogy.” Hall has edited three award-winning books, "The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook: Volume 1" (2007) with Martha Diaz, "Conscious Women Rock the Page: Using Hip-Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change" (2008), and "Love, Race & Liberation: 'Til the White Day is Done" (2010) with Jennifer "JLove" Calderon. Additionally, Hall has written for Scholastic Books, the New York Times Learning Network, VIBE, and various academic journals including Equity and Excellence in Education. Media appearances include: the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Gallery (JFK50.org), WNYC's Soundcheck and WBAI's Nonfiction & Wake Up Call, as well as El Diario, Blackplanet.com, Rethinking Schools Magazine, NYU Today, Edutopia, Defenders Online, Congress.org, Speak Out, Davey D’s Hip-Hop Corner, Zora-Alice, Ballerstatus.com, Teaching for Change, the Women in Student Affairs Journal, AllHipHop.com, XXL and Black Issues Book Review. An educator above all else, Hall has received numerous teaching awards, including the Association of American Colleges Universities (AAC&U) K. Patricia Cross Future Scholar's Award. Hall was also recognized for her social justice activism through the Brooklyn Borough President's Office. Currently working at New York University, Hall serves on the founding Board of Trustees for the Hip-Hop Education Center for Research, Evaluation and Training; Associate Director of the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs/Center for Spiritual Life, adjunct faculty in the Steinhardt School of Education, Communication and Culture, and academic adviser and part-time faculty in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Prior to working at NYU, Hall was an Education Fellow for the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. Hall resides in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn with her husband, David Hall aka DJ Trends and their baby girl, Aaliyah Zoe. For more information: http://www.marcellarhall.com
