Tangela Blakely Reavis, PhD, is an assistant professor in the department of leadership and program director for the educational leadership program in the Kalmanovitz School of Education at Saint Mary's College of California. Dr. Reavis's research focuses on the role of structural inequality in education where she examines the ways in which race, class, gender, policy, and school context influence college access and completion for students of color and low-income students. Her research has been published in the American Education Research Journal, the Journal of Higher Education, and the Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings. Dr. Reavis earned both her PhD and Master's degrees in educational leadership and policy analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a minor in educational policy studies. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Spelman College.