Dr. Bal examines the racialization of psychological problems, racial disproportionality in special education, systemic transformation, and expansive learning. As a practitioner, Dr. Bal has worked with youth from historically marginalized communities and refugees experiencing behavioral difficulties such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from South Sudan, Turkey, the Russian Federation, and the United States. He recently edited (with J. Lo Bianco) Springer’s Learning from difference: Comparative accounts of multicultural education.