Miriam D. Ezzani is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership in the College of Education at Texas Christian University. She studies culturally responsive leadership within contexts of school and district reform and Islamic school leadership. Her research foci align with a unifying goal of examining how educational leaders plan, implement, and sustain reform efforts to support equitable and socially just schooling experiences for historically minoritized students, with a focus on issues of race and faith.

Before her work in higher education, she served in California public schools as a school leader, literacy coach, and teacher. She is an alumna of the University of Southern California, where she earned a doctorate in K-12 Educational Leadership. Her publications appear in journals such as Educational Administration Quarterly, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Journal of School Leadership, and Teachers College Record. She is a recipient of the American Educational Research Association, Division A, Emerging Scholar Award, and the University Council for Educational Administration Jack A. Culbertson Award. Dr. Ezzani is co-editor of Great Muslim Leaders: Lessons for Education and co-author of Islam, Education and Freedom: An Uncommon Perspective on Leadership.