James A. Banks is the Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus at the University of Washington, Seattle, which is now the Banks Center for Educational Justice. Banks is a past president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), a Fellow of AERA, a member of the National Academy of Education, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME).