Saili Kulkarni Ph.D.

It’s Usually Puerto Rico’s Slow Season. This Year, Bad Bunny’s in Town.

Check out my sister’s article! @shefalikulkarni.bsky.social

It’s Usually Puerto Rico’s Slow Season. This Year, Bad Bunny’s in Town. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...

Addressing Racism and Ableism in the... book by Saili S. Kulkarni Buy a cheap copy of Addressing Racism and Ableism in the... book by Saili S. Kulkarni. Addressing Racism and Ableism in the Classroom and Teacher Education centers and elevates narratives of special e...

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Addressing Racism and Ableism in the Classroom and Teacher Education: Case Studies of Special Education Teachers of Color Addressing Racism and Ableism in the Classroom and Teacher Education centers and elevates narratives of special education teachers of color, an overlooked and underserved population in public educatio...

My new book is out this October
First to provide narratives of special education teachers of color!

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Saili Kulkarni, Ph.D. on LinkedIn: In December of 2024, I finished and submitted my entire book manuscript to… In December of 2024, I finished and submitted my entire book manuscript to Teachers College Press (TCP) for the Disability Culture and Equity Series. This past…

New post on my book contract

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As I figure out what I want this platform to be for me, I’ve decided to try to promote scholarship on equity and disability written by scholars of color. First up, this article on reimagining IEP interpretations by @drarubybatz.bsky.social et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Incase you want to know which article: www.researchgate.net/profile/Sail...

While it felt dejecting to have so many revisions, I am now so grateful for our early persistence and insistence that the work was important.

Today, that article has nearly 100 citations, is still widely discussed in its subfield and served as a turning point in both our careers. (She now has a Master’s in Counseling and I got tenure at my new institution some years ago).

Through the program that supported our partnership, lots of coffee shop work, and 4 rounds of R&R our article was published in 2017

I found a student from the first post PhD class I taught. She was a post-bacc with 0 research training.

In 2015, as a recent PhD grad and first year faculty @csudh.bsky.social I applied to a program that provided new faculty with a research assistant.

a woman is talking about having black friends . ALT: a woman is talking about having black friends .

Saw a diversity statement for a job today where a white woman listed her Asian husband and mixed race child. SMH.

Here in the Bay Area, I’ve encountered far too many South Asian families who believe that the “best” related services will somehow make their kid less disabled. Instead of sending your kids to the best segregated, special ed program, channel your resources into inclusion advocacy. The end.

In special education, ABA

Anything or anyone using terms like grit or resilience to describe our students & teachers. Stop placing responsibility on people to claw themselves out of poorly managed, harmful systems and then congratulating them with empty words because they survived.

Poet Nikki Giovanni dies at 81

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Why didn’t you just become a REAL doctor?

3. Why would teachers need to go to school for that long? Isn’t education just rote memorization and tests?

2. You mean there’s a profession to study disabled kids education? Why?

Things my Desi family and other relatives/Desi folks think about my profession as a special education professor, a thread:

1. What’s “special” about this education?

Wearing A Salmon On Your Head Is Back In Fashion For Orcas, After A 37-Year Break In 1987, there was a strange trend amongst killer whales. Recent sightings show it's back in fashion.

On Tuesdays we wear salmon

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Low standardized test scores here, a D in my first bio class freshman year and a 2.66 undergrad GPA right here.

This workshop/fellowship looks amazing, encouraging emerging disabled scholar-activists to apply!

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Thanks for adding me folx! Hoping I can think of something more coherent to post soon but currently busy transitioning back to work after maternity leave. If you followed me based on a scholar starter pack, here is a link to my articles and chapters works.bepress.com/saili-kulkar...

What’s something that cannot be understood without first hand experience?

I’ll offer up: parenthood.

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Great seeing @levarburton.bsky.social speak at the #NAEYC recently!

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Some such work includes: epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep...

It felt kinda ick posting some recent work that came out on X. I had otherwise divested a long time ago but missed opportunities to connect with others around scholarship and other thoughts. Grateful for this new space and hoping it’ll remain 🤞🏾