Jacques P. Lesure

Position title: Social Sciences and Education

Email: lesure@wisc.edu

Jacques P. Lesure is a doctoral student in the Educational Policy Studies department. He proudly hails from Dekalb County, Georgia. Jacques holds a MA in Educational Policy Studies from UW-Madison, as well as a BA from Occidental College, where he designed a major entitled Resistive Education in Theory, Research, and Policy.

He has constantly evolving research interests in race and education, discourse studies, gender studies, and the anthropology of policy. Most recently, Jacques explored the role of neoliberalism in Obama-era higher education reform efforts using critical policy discourse analysis in his Master’s thesis.

He hopes that his work will one day be used by those seeking to reframe and address problems that Black people endure.