Zewelanji Serpell

Zewelanji Natashya Serpell (born 1974) is an American developmental psychologist whose scholarship examines the learning experiences of African American students in school and school-based interventions targeting executive functions.

In 2017-2018, she was appointed as Education Policy Fellow for the American Education Research Association Congressional Fellowship Program. She was on the United States House Committee on Education and the Workforce, working to craft legislation on higher education related issues, including Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and institutional accountability on accreditation. In 2019, Serpell received the Dalmas A. Taylor Distinguished Contributions Award, as part of the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program.