Social Sciences and Comparative Education Division (SSCE) Student Directory
The Social Sciences and Comparative Education (SSCE) Division is concerned with issues of social, cultural, historical, and comparative/international contexts of education. The Division is multidisciplinary and brings various methodologies and vocabularies — discourse analysis, philosophical analysis, agency, representation and structure — as well as classical approaches to the study of education.
Doctoral Student Directory Request FormYear Entered Program: 2024 – 2025
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2024
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2024
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lvaldez930@ucla.edu | LinkedIn
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2024
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Race, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies
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- Education Policy
- Accessible and Equitable Education
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- Juris Doctor, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- Master of Public Policy, Loyola University Chicago
- Bachelor of Arts in English and Political Science, California Baptist University
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- Anita Weinberg and Lilia Valdez, Child Welfare, Reasonable Efforts, and Covid, 41 Children’s Legal Rights Journal 162 (2021)
- Lilia Valdez, The Department of Education’s Daily Impact on American Students, 25 Pub. Interest L. Rptr. 132 (2021).
- Lilia Valdez, Wrongfully Convicted Does Not Need to Mean Wrongfully Compensated: Using State Legislation to Assure Accurate Compensation, 25 Pub. Interest L. Rptr. 55 (2020).
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sdevreede@ucla.edu | LinkedIn | Website
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2024
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Shiraz is a graduate student in the Social Sciences and Comparative Education program at UCLA’s School of Education and Information Science. Her research investigates early childhood ecosystems in cross-cultural and intentional contexts with a particular focus on the de/commodification of pre-primary (0-5) education and care infrastructure. In 2020, she earned her bachelor’s in Peace and Conflict Studies from UC Berkeley, where she specialized in International Political Economy and earned a minor in Global Poverty and Practice. Beyond academics, Shiraz has over a decade of experience in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), supporting preschool classrooms, families, and children before, during, and after the COVID-19 Pandemic. Shiraz loves working with children and building community through her research. Through and beyond her research, she hopes to continue raising visibility around the fundamental importance of ECEC ecosystems and work of early childhood educators.
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- Political Economy of Care and Education
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- Early Care and Education
- Global Citizenship Education
- Globalization, International Development, and Neoliberalism
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- M.A. Social Sciences and Comparative Education; UCLA 2024
- B.A. Peace and Conflict Studies, Global Poverty and Practice; UC Berkeley 2020
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- Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities
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Year Entered Program: 2023 – 2024
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2023
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2023
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2023
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anniebae@g.ucla.edu | LinkedIn
Year Entered Program
2023
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- Asian American Students
- Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education
- Educational Histories
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- Ed.M. in Learning and Teaching, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- M.A. in Medieval Literature and Languages, University of York, England
- B.A. in English, minor in Education Studies, UCLA
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- Jeung, R., Garcia, N., Bae, A., Shen, C., Malasa, J. & Lim, R. (2023). “Urgently Needed to Protect Asian American Children and Families”: The Social Movement for Asian American Studies at K-12 Grades. Sociological Inquiry 94(2): 369–390. https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12573.
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- 21st Century California School Leadership Academy (21CSLA)
- Center X
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nancyxu3@g.ucla.edu | LinkedIn
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2023
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Nancy Xu is a Ph.D. student in Social Sciences and Comparative Education at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, focusing her research on global citizenship education and diversity development. Her passion lies in fostering a more socially just, peaceful, and sustainable world. Nancy holds an MBA and a Master of Science in Finance from Seattle University and has work experience across various sectors, including public and private schools, nonprofits, and corporations. She is dedicated to helping students reach their goals.
Teaching and Research Interests
- Global Citizenship Education and Diversity Development
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- Irma Polaski Award
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- 2017-2020 Seattle University, Seattle, Washington State. Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Finance, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Certificate
- 2012-2016 City University of Seattle, Seattle, Washington State. Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
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2023
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2023
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michellecv1996@g.ucla.edu | LinkedIn | CV
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2023
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Michelle is a PhD student specializing in Race, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies in Education. She is a proud Pilipina and first-generation graduate student from Gardena, California. Her research focuses on exploring social, cultural, and historic institutions that influence how Pilipino students successfully access, navigate, and matriculate from postsecondary education. Simply put, she desires to explore what impact the way Pilipino students experience and graduate from two- and four-year colleges. She also intends to explore the ways in which Pilipino students negate their marginalization within educational practice and policy. Michelle completed her M.A.Ed. from CSULB in Social and Cultural Analysis of Education with an Urban Contexts concentration & her B.A at UCLA in Sociology with a minor in Global Studies. Prior to doctoral education, Michelle worked as a TRiO College Advisor & Coordinator. In that role, she advised hundreds of high school students who identified as low-income and first-generation college students understand higher education.
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- Race, Ethnic, Cultural Studies
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- Pilipinx Studies
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- College Access
- Retention in Higher Education Institutions
- Qualitative Research Methods
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- Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
- Graduate Dean Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles
- Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program Fellow (2024), California State University System
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- Master of Arts in Education (MA.Ed.) in Social and Cultural Analysis of Education with Urban Contexts Concentration (2023) – California State University, Long Beach
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Sociology with a minor in Global Studies (2019) – University of California, Los Angeles
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- Center for Critical Race Studies in Education (CCRSE)
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2023
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Year Entered Program: 2022 – 2023
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2022
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2022
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Year Entered Program: 2021 – 2022
arjunkrishna@ucla.edu | LinkedIn | Twitter
Year Entered Program
2021
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Arjun Krishna is a Ph.D. student in Social Sciences & Comparative Education at UCLA. Trained in critical theory as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, Arjun works with indigenous communities in South Asia and researches international education development through a critical lens, adopting anthropological and ethnographic methods in social science research. A former teacher, Arjun worked in a rural school in India and went on to become certified faculty at a high school in Arizona. Drawing from their experiences in the field, their research interests are primarily centered around questions of movement, indigeneity, race, and relationships to land, water, and the environment. They are also interested in analyzing the effects of the implementation of education efforts by national and international development agencies on identity, ways of being, and forms of participation in local economies.
Teaching and Research Interests
- Anthropology of Education
- Critical Development Studies
- Houselessness, Migration, and Movement
- Indigenous Studies
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
- 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award
- 2022 Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award (GSRM)
- 2022 W. M. Keck Research Award for Humanistic Inquiry
- 2021 Louise Tyler Fellowship
- 2021 Graduate Division Merit Scholarship
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- B.A., University of California, Berkeley (2018)
- M.Ed., Arizona State University (2020)
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2021
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Darek M. Ciszek is a Ph.D. student in the Social Sciences and Comparative Education Division at the UCLA School of Education. His research interests include education and social policy, developmental psychology, and curriculum design. His research also focuses on social justice and equity in education with a particular emphasis on the instructional and learning experiences of LGBTQ+ teachers and students. Professionally, Darek has worked in education technology (EdTech) and enjoys supporting new innovations in classroom-based digital solutions with an equity lens. He holds a Master’s in Public Policy and Management (MPA) from New York University and a Bachelor’s in Social and Political History from the University of Chicago.
Teaching and Research Interests
- Education Policy
- Comparative Education
- Developmental Psychology
- Curriculum Design
- Equity & Inclusion
- Education Policy
- Social Justice/ Equity
- Curriculum
- Technology
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- Graduate Division Merit Scholarship
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- M.P.A., New York University
- B.A. in Social and Political History, University of Chicago
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2022
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k14kokawa@ucla.edu | LinkedIn | Website
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2020
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Aloha, my name is Kourtney Kawano, and I’m a fourth-year, wāhine ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian female), PhD candidate in the Social Sciences and Comparative Education division of UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies. I’m currently working on my dissertation on identity, discourse, and the familial transmission of internalized oppression and resistance among Native Hawaiian students and families.
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- Race, culture, ethnic studies
Teaching and Research Interests
- Conceptualizing and measuring (in)access and (in)equity in K–16 institutions
- culture-based education
- Kanaka ʻŌiwi Critical Race Theory
- racialized K–16 schooling experiences of Indigenous youth
- internalized oppression and resistance
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- Kawano, K. (2024). Revelations about the Seeds we Planted: Huikau, Kūʻē, and the Lāhui. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, 20(3), 428–439. DOI:10.1177/11771801241250063
- Kawano, K. (2023). Engaging a Kanaka ʻŌiwi Literature Review Methodology through Research on Native Hawaiian Culture-Based Education. Review of Educational Research, 93(6), 862–900. DOI:10.3102/00346543221149004
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- Center for Critical Race Studies in Education (CCRSE)
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2021
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2021
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Omar is a doctoral student specializing in Race, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies in Education. His research focuses on understanding the ways Central American students resist, persist, and transform higher education institutions, society, and immigration policies. Largely, he hopes that his research will serve to highlight the ways that hegemony among the larger Latinx pan-ethnic identity erases the lived experiences of non-majoritarian communities. His research brings together Education History, LatCrit, CRT, Central American Studies, and Critical Legal Studies. His research comes from making sense of his experience in education as the son of immigrants from Guatemala. He is a double Bruin, earning his Master’s of Education in Student Affairs and his Bachelor’s in Chicana/o and Central American Studies, minor in History, with an emphasis on Mesoamerica. He is a proud non-traditional transfer student (Los Angeles Pierce College) living in Long Beach, CA. He worked in Student Affairs (Residential Life, Learning Centers, and the Career Center) at UCLA for six years. Before working at UCLA, he was a life coach at Fuente de Lideres, working with predominantly Latinx community members across the U.S. and Mexico. He loves riding his motorcycle and training for his 10th marathon in his spare time.
Teaching and Research Interests
- Critical Race and LatCrit Theory In Education
- Central American Studies
- Community Cultural Wealth
- Higher Education Retention
- Self-Authorship through Transformational Resistance
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
- UCLA Education & Information Studies Year One Doctoral Fellow, 2021
- UCLA Graduate Opportunity Fellow, 2020
- Magna Cum Laude, UCLA, 2020
- College Honors, UCLA, 2020
- Deans Honor List, UCLA, 2019, 2020
- Vice Provost Academic Achievement Recognition Award, UCLA, 2018
- Deans Honor List, Los Angeles Pierce College, 2016, 2017
Education
- M.Ed. in Student Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles, 2021
- B.A. Chicana/o and Central American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2020
- A.A. Social and Behavioral Sciences, Los Angeles Pierce College, 2018
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2022
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2022
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2022
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2022
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2022
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2020
Teaching and Research Interests
- Race and immigration
- Undocumented students in higher education
- College access and persistence
- Critical qualitative research
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- UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Pearl Wang Fellowship
- Rose Eng Chin & Helen Wong Eng Best Paper Award
- UCLA Graduate Council Diversity Fellowship
- UCLA Chancellor Service Award
- Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
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Year Entered Program: 2019 – 2020
Year Entered Program
2019
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fhadjeris@gmail.com | LinkedIn
Year Entered Program
2019
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Fadhila Hadjeris is former Fulbright scholar and currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of
Education at the University of California Los Angeles with a major in Social Sciences and Comparative International Education. Her research interests center on the implementation of Global Citizenship Education in the Algerian context with a focus on the school curriculum and teachers’ pedagogy. She taught different languages: English in Algeria and Arabic and French in the USA. She is now serving as a teaching fellow with UCLA’s Cluster Program.
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Curriculum and instruction
Teaching and Research Interests
- Pedagogies of Global Citizenship Education
- Teaching Foreign Languages
- Southern Epistemologies
- Race & ethnicity in the Maghreb
- The experiences of Muslim Youth in US Higher education institutions
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
- UCLA, Division-Based Merit Scholarship
- UCLA, Canadian Studies Graduate Student Research Travel Grant
- UCLA, Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms Award
- UCLA, Graduate Summer Research Mentorship
- UCLA, Graduate Summer Research Mentorship
- Wellesley College, Fulbright Scholarship
- SIT, Algeria University Linkages Scholarship training, Vermont
Education
- Ph.D. in Education, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Anticipated June 2025
- Graduate Certificate, Writing Pedagogy (Inclusive Pedagogy), Fall 2024
- Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, University of Constantine, July 2022
- Magister (MA) Linguistics and Teaching, Doctoral School, University of Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, Algeria, May 2014.
- Fulbright Fellow Dept. of Middle Eastern Studies, Wellesley College, USA, June 2018.
- B.A. in Education, Oum El Bouaghi, University, Algeria, July 2007.
Publications
- Hadjeris, F. (2024). Colorism and Indigeneity: The Portrayal of Tuareg Amazighs in English Language School Textbooks in Algeria. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1-19.
- Hadjeris, F. (2024). Deconstructing Gender Stereotypes in Standardized English Language School Textbooks in Algeria: Implications for Equitable Instructional Materials. Discourse Studies, 26(5), 621-642.
- Hadjeris, F. (2021). Revisiting Sustainable Development Goal 4 in the Context of the COVID 19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Online Teaching in Algerian Higher Education Institutions. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies. 3 (1), 160-168.
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- Paulo Freire Institute
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fcgraham@ucla.edu | Office Hours | CV
Year Entered Program
2019
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Felicia is a fifth year PhD candidate in UCLA’s Graduate School of Education, in the division of Social Science and Comparative Education where she serves as a Teaching Fellow. Her teaching and scholarship focus on youth civic engagement, global studies education, and decolonizing pedagogies and epistemologies. Guided by Chicana feminist theories, her dissertation research engages youth in a political and economic critique of media to become advocates for culturally, historically, and politically responsive education based on human dignity, earthly respect, and rooted in the practice of love. Felicia received her Master’s in Global and International Studies from UCSB, and her BA in Political Science and History from UCSD. Felicia values being immersed in the rich cultural and environmental offerings of California with her daughter.
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- Global and International Studies
- Civic Education
- Dialogue across Difference
- Media and Cultural Studies
- Decolonizing Theory and Praxis
- Critical Youth Studies and Critical Pedagogies
- Ethnographies of Globalization
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Global Cultures and Spiritualities
- Latin American Studies
- Political Economy & Sustainability
- Diversity, Inclusion, Justice, Equity
Teaching and Research Interests
- Ethnographies of Globalization Studies
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Critical Youth Studies and Critical Pedagogies
- Media and Cultural Studies
- Decolonizing Theory and Praxis
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
- Fellow, UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement (VOICE) Initiative, “Restorative Practices & Democratic Civic Engagement: building restorative communication practices and spaces at UCLA in the aftermath of the UAW labor strike,” 2023-2024
Education
- PhD Social Science & Comparative Education, University of California, Los Angeles (exp. 2026)
- MA Global and International Studies, University of California Santa Barbara (2014)
- BA Political Science and History, University of California San Diego (2010)
Publications
- Ferdman, M., C., Graham, F. “The Promise of Building Bridges in Education”. Southern Poverty Law Center, Learning for Justice Magazine. (forthcoming, 2024)
- Casar, M., Sasner, C., Graham, F. “Nothing About Us Without Us: A Local Control Funding Formula Case Study on East Side Union High School District”. UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools. 2022.
- Mathews, K., Leger, M.L., Mauerman, C., Graham, F. “Prioritizing Educator Diversity with New State and Federal Funding”. UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools. 2022.
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huihuang12@g.ucla.edu | CV | LinkedIn
Year Entered Program
2019
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Hui is a fifth-year doctoral student in UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies (Ed&IS). Her research explores the link between individuals’ formal, non-formal, and informal learning experiences and their impacts on various outcomes such as identity development, well-being, and types of skill formation. Hui also works as a Doctoral Researcher at UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools, where she engages in research focusing on advocating for evidence-based practices that help humanize the teaching profession. Hui holds an M.A. in Comparative Education and a B.A. in English from China. She lives in Culver City with her two cute cats and enjoys staying active at the gym and reconnecting with nature.
Teaching and Research Interests
- Workplace Learning
- Health and Wellbeing
- teacher education and teaching
- racial equity
- mixed-methods
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
- Gordon & Olga Smith Fellowship, 2022
- Summer Mentoring Research Fellowship, 2021
Education
- M.Ed., Comparative Education
- B.A, English
Publications
- Mathews, K., Huang, H., Yagi, E., Balfe, C., Bishop, J.P. (2024). California’s Teacher Education Program (TEP) Deserts: An Overlooked & Growing Equity Challenge. Center for the Transformation of Schools, School of Education & Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Mathews, K., Huang, H., Yagi, E., Balfe, C., Mauerman, C., Edwards, E. (in press). Barriers to racial equity for Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers in California’s teaching pipeline & profession. The Civil Rights Project & UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools.
- Desjardins, R., & Huang, H. (in press). Lifelong learning and skill formation over the life course. In E. Saar and P. Robert (eds), Handbook on Education and Labour Market. Edward Elgar.
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- UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools
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2019
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2019
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2019
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Year Entered Program: 2018 – 2019
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2018
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cynthiaestrada@ucla.edu | CVi | LinkedIn
Year Entered Program
2018
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Cynthia is a doctoral student specializing in Race and Ethnic Studies within the Social Science and Comparative Education program at the University of California, Los Angeles. Identifying as a first-generation college graduate and Chicana, her research centers race and racism to examine issues related to higher education access and equity for minoritized student populations. She is particularly interested in better understanding how current higher education recruitment strategies construct and reproduce racialized narratives that center dominant ideologies. Cynthia currently serves as a Research Associate for the Institute of Immigration, Globalization and Education at UCLA and Lead Graduate Researcher at the Community College HigherEd Access Leadership Equity Scholarship (CCHALES) Research Collective at SDSU. In her spare time, she enjoys dancing to cumbias, traveling, and attending live music concerts. Prior to UCLA, Cynthia studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she received her BA in English with a minor in Applied Psychology & Education.
Teaching and Research Interests
- Critical Race Theory
- Higher Education
- Chicana Feminisms
- Critical Methodologies
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
- Diversity Scholarship Recipient, 2021, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program, University of Michigan
- Erik M. Colon Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 2021, American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Latinx Network
- Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program Fellow, 2020, California State University
- Gordon & Olga Smith Scholarship Recipient, 2018, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Education
- Master of Arts, 2018, Social Science and Comparative Education , Sub specialization in Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
- Professional Certificate in Grant Writing, 2017, San Diego State University
- College of Extended Studies, Bachelor of Arts, 2012, English with a minor in Applied Psychology and Education
Publications
- Paredes, A., Estrada, C., Venturanza, R., & Teranishi, R. (2021). La Lucha Sigue: The University of California’s Role as a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution System. Retrieved from https://www.ucop.edu/hsi-initiative/_files/report-la-lucha-sigue.pdf
- Felix, E., Trinidad, A., Estrada, C. (2020). California Community Colleges, Proposition 209, and the Restrictions to Improving Racial Equity. Retrieved from https://west.edtrust.org/wpcontent/uploads/2017/11/Ed-Trust-West-Reserch-in-Brief-Prop-16-9_29_2020.pdf
- Ryoo, J. J., Tanksley, T., Estrada, C., & Margolis, J. (2020). Take space, make space: how students use computer science to disrupt and resist marginalization in schools. Computer Science Education, 30(3), 337-361.
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- Institute for Immigration Globalization and Education (IGE), University of California, Los Angeles
- Community College HigherEd Access Leadership Equity Scholarship (CCHALES) Research Collective, San Diego State University
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Year Entered Program
2018
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I am an enrolled tribal member of the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians and I also grew up on the reservation, near Valley Center, CA (North San Diego County). I am a Doctoral student in the School of Education – Social Sciences and Comparative Education. My research is on language preservation and language immersion for Native students K-12th in California. I will focus on the importance of culture and language in western academic schools to further advance Native students in education. My research will be conducted on my reservation and I will use autoethnography to collect data.
Education
- B.A., American Indian Studies ’11
- M.A., American Indian Studies ’14
- M.A., Social Research Methodology ’18
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