Dr. Daniel G. Solorzano is a Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. In addition, Daniel is the Associate Director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and the Associate Director of the University of California All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (UC ACCORD), an interdisciplinary, multi-campus research center devoted to a more equitable distribution of educational resources and opportunities in California’s public schools and universities. Daniel’s teaching and research interests include critical race and gender studies on the educational access, persistence, and graduation of underrepresented minority undergraduate and graduate students in the United States. Dr. Solorzano has published numerous research articles, book chapters, and reports. Among his most recent publications are “Educational Inequities and Latina/o Undergraduate Students in the United States: A Critical Race Analysis of Their Educational Progress,” "A Critical Race Counterstory of Affirmative Action in Higher Education," and "Maintaining Social Justice Hopes within Academic Realities: A Freirean Approach to Critical Race/LatCrit Pedagogy."

Professor Solorzano received his B.A. in Sociology and Chicano Studies and an M.Ed. in Urban Education from Loyola University in 1972 and 1974. He went on to obtain his M.A. and Ph.D. in the Sociology of Education from the Claremont Graduate School in 1984 and 1986. Upon graduation, he received three Postdoctoral Fellowships from the Tomas Rivera Center for Policy Studies in Social and Family Policy (1986), the Educational Testing Service in Educational Policy (1987), and the Ford Foundation in Sociology (1988).