Graduate Student Directory

Research Interests

Social Movements, Youth Studies, Chicana Feminisms

Biography, Education and Training

Education

Ph.D. Student in Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California Santa Cruz

M.A. in Chicano/Chicana Studies, California State University Northridge

Thesis "Constructing Community: San Fernando Valley Youth and Community Activism"

B.A. in Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California Irvine

Honors, Awards and Grants

Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS) Conference Grant, Dolores Huerta Research Center (Spring 2023)

Fellowship, Crossing Latinidades Summer Research Initiative (Summer 23)

Graduate Student Fellowship, National Humanities Center for Virtual Institute (Winter 23)

Archival Methods Research Cluster Grant, Dolores Huerta Research Center (Fall 22)

Publishing Fellowship, Los Angeles Review of Books (Summer 22)

Regents Fellowship, University of California Santa Cruz (Fall 21)

Chancellor's Doctoral Incentive Program, The California State University (Summer 21)

Selected Publications

Book Reviews

Jimenez-Bayardo, Brittney. 2023. Book Review of Spectacle and Diversity: Transnational Media and Global Culture, by Lee Artz. Lateral Journal of the Cultural Studies, 12(1).

Selected Presentations

Panel Presentation

“Defamiliarizing Disciplinary Exercises: Creative Writing in Non-Literature Classrooms.” All-In: Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference, October 26-28, 2022, Santa Cruz, CA.

Round Table Presentation

"The Geographies of Research: Who Gets to be in Academic Literature?" University of California Santa Cruz, McHenry Library Digital Scholarship Symposium, May 25, 2023, Santa Cruz, CA.

“Higher Education and Gender Inclusive Housing: From Social Discrimination to Surviving a Pandemic.” California Sociological Association, November 11-12, 2022, Virtual.

Accepted but Unable to Attend: “Latina Feminisms and Youth From a Transnational Perspective.” Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting, January 27-30, 2022, Santa Ana Pueblo, NM.

“Constructing Community: San Fernando Valley Youth and Community Activism.” California State University, Northridge Graduate Research Symposium, April 9, 2021, Virtual. 

“Politics Amidst a Pandemic: Activism in the Time of Corona.” Pacific Sociological Association, March 17-21, 2021, Virtual.

"Feeling Fatigue: How Black Lives Matter Activists Experience Burnout in the Time of COVID." Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting, January 27-31, Virtual.

Teaching Interests

Teaching Assistant Experience

- Social Science Analytics (LALS 100A)

- Racism, Science, and Health: Colonial and Carceral Legacies (LALS 54)

- Introduction to Human Rights and Social Justice (LALS 5)

- Introduction to Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS 1)

- Hip Hop History (LALS 79)