Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., Occidental College
Jacques P. Lesure is a scholar, evaluator, and educator whose work engages race, education, evaluation, and policy. His research examines how nonprofits, grassroots initiatives, foundations, and governmental agencies develop, negotiate, and contest evaluative discourses, practices, and norms in their efforts to address racial and socioeconomic inequality. More specifically, he explores how notions of "impact" and "progress" are constructed within educational and social service contexts, shaped by broader political and economic arrangements, with implications for evaluation theory and practice.
At Trinity College, he serves as Senior Director of CHER Academic Programs and Lecturer of Educational Studies. In and outside of the classroom, he designs learning experiences that center community-led, data-informed priorities, aligning them with student learning goals. Prior to Trinity, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Education at Brown University, where he also directed the Rhode Island Evidence Collective, an evaluation capacity-building initiative across education, public health, and workforce development. |
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Community-Engaged Evaluation
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Race and Educational Inequality
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Political Economy of Education
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Nonprofit and Community-Based Capacity Building
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Qualitative Research Methods
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Black Male Educational Spaces
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Race and Education
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Culturally Responsive Evaluation
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Community-Based Organizations
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Publications:
- Kliewer, B., Lesure, J. P., & Orchard, R. (in press). The Practice Turn in Leadership Learning: Leadership-as-Practice Development (LaPD) and Conditions that (re)Imagine Leadership & Masculinity. New Directions in Student Leadership.
- Lesure, J. P. (2024). Lessons Learned: Black Student Leadership and the Progressive University. In K. Watson, N. Cisneros, L. P. Huber, & V. Velez (Eds.), Like a Path in Tall Grasses: A Handbook of Race and Refusal in Higher Education (pp. 1-10). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Presentations:
- Lesure, J. P. (2025, April 26). Presenter for Presidential Session: The Subject at Large: Regenerating Theory and Practices in Black “Male” Educational Research. Session chaired by T. C. Howard at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
- Lesure, J. P. (2024, April 11). Chair and presenter for Collegiate Black Men and Leadership Learning for Liberation. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
- Lesure, J. P. (2024, April 13). Co-presenter, Presidential session, Troubling Gender and Sexuality: Meditations on Performances of (Un)gendering in Black Educational Spaces. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
- Lesure, J. P. (2023, October 12). Final Presentations from a Year of GEDI Learning and Light II. American Evaluation Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
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- Wisconsin Center for Education Research Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2024
- Alexa Posny Award in Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023
- Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) Fellowship, American Evaluation Association, 2022-2024
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