Rate My Professor Kari Kokka

Kari Kokka, Ed.D., serves as Associate Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research specializations include social justice mathematics, mathematics teacher activism, and critical consciousness development among mathematics teachers. Current research projects are funded by the National Science Foundation and the Spencer Foundation. Before joining UNLV, she held the position of Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of Pittsburgh from 2017 to 2022. During her tenure there, she received the Dean’s Distinguished Research Award in 2022, the Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2021, and the Iris Marion Award for Social Justice in 2019. She was elected president-elect of TODOS: Mathematics for ALL, with terms as president-elect from 2025-2026, president from 2026-2028, and past president from 2028-2029. Dr. Kokka is a co-founder of the Creating Balance in an Unjust World Conference on STEMM Education and Social Justice, established in 2007, and served as former co-chair of the Critical Educators for Social Justice Special Interest Group from 2017 to 2019. She has been involved with the Radical STEMM Educators of the Bay Area, the People’s Education Movement, and the New York Collective of Radical Educators. Additionally, she co-hosts the Critical Math Drop Podcast with Michelle Cody.