David I. Backer is an Associate Professor of Education Policy in the Department of Educational Leadership, Management, and Policy at Seton Hall University. His research, teaching, and organizing focus on ideology and school finance, with an emphasis on racial capitalism, climate change, and infrastructure. A co-author of the original report that led to Green New Deal for Schools legislation, Backer has published on the subject of critical school finance in Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of Educational Human Resources, Journal of Educational Administration and History, Pennsylvania Journal of Educational Leadership, as well as general audience articles in Phenomenal World, Dissent, African American Policy Forum, American Prospect and elsewhere.
