Ryan earned his master’s degree at Penn GSE, and currently works as a research consultant. Reading at the intersections of autonomist marxism, post-structuralism, and critical literacies, Ryan intends to continue scholarship while organizing education collaboratives. His broader research interests include youth’s political geographies within-and-beyond community organizations, radical theories of power, and decolonial epistemologies of space.
Read MoreMenen Stroud is completing her master’s degree in Education, Culture and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in how schools can be transformed into sites of liberation, with a particular interest in how activism can play a role in that process. Menen is originally from Oakland, CA, and hopes to take her research and learnings back home to work with the communities in which she grew up.
Read MoreMia Shaw is a currently a PhD student in education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in examining the effectiveness of making and project-based learning (PBL) in STEAM education for Black and Brown youth, particularly in the spheres of student voice, identity development, and creativity/innovation.
Read MoreLarissa is a PhD student reading across sound, music, and Africana Studies. She thinks about the ways in which we accidentally reproduce the violences we seek to dismantle in our societies. She is invested in exploring forms of imagining and realizing better worlds that are neither ethically bankrupt nor standing to ideological inaction.
Read MoreAlicia Chatterjee is completing her masters in education at the University of Pennsylvania and starting her PhD in social work. She is broadly interested in intersections of engaged healing and justice. She came to Activism & Education with a background in organizing with survivors of intimate violence, especially survivors of color, and with an interest in activism as an effort towards healing.
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