Allison Roda is an assistant professor of education at Molloy College in the Educational Leadership for Diverse Learning Communities Ed.D. program. Roda’s research and teaching interests are focused on urban education policy, educational stratification, families and schools, and qualitative research methods. She is the author of Inequality in Gifted and Talented Programs: Parental Choices About Status, School Opportunity, and Second-Generation Segregation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), which examines the relationship among gifted and talented (G&T) education, school choice, and racialized tracking within New York City elementary schools.