Maisha T. Winn is Chancellor's Leadership Professor at the University of California, Davis, and codirector (with Torry Winn) of UC Davis's Transformative Justice in Education (TJE) Center. Her program of research examines the ways in which teachers and/or adult allies for youth in schools and in out-of-school contexts practice "justice" in the teaching of literacy.

Winn was named an American Educational Research Association Fellow in 2016, received the William T. Grant Foundation Distinguished Fellowship in 2014, and received the American Educational Research Association Early Career Award in 2012. She has authored several books, including Writing in Rhythm: Spoken Word Poetry in Urban Schools (2007, published under "Fisher"), Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2009, published under "Fisher"), Girl Time: Literacy, Justice, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline (2011), and most recently Justice on Both Sides: Transforming Education through Restorative Justice (2018), and is coeditor of Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (with Django Paris). Winn is also the author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Review of Research in Education; Anthropology and Education Quarterly; International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education; Race Ethnicity and Education; Research in the Teaching of English; Race and Social Problems; and Harvard Educational Review.