Banks Center for Educational Justice

The Banks Center for Educational Justice at the University of Washington is a central location for partnerships, program development, and collaborative research with educational settings that seek to center and sustain Native, Black, Latinx, Asian and Pacific Islander young people and communities across multiple intersections with gender, disability, language, land, migration, class, and more.

We are deeply honored to carry on the name and legacy of Dr. James Banks and Dr. Cherry Banks. A professor at the University of Washington for 50 years, James A. Banks was the founding director of the Center for Multicultural Education. Dr. Cherry A. Banks was a founding professor at the University of Washington, Bothell and a leading affiliated faculty member of the Center for Multicultural Education. Both James and Cherry Banks retired in 2018.