Michelle Hernández Romero (she/her)
Ph.D. in Education
Michelle is a Ph.D. student in Urban Schooling, where she studies the intersections of learning in and with community, cultural strengths, science education and Land-based education. She is passionate about advocating for institutions to provide quality education for immigrant students through building and sustaining strong, long-lasting school-community bridges that honor the knowledges of immigrant communities.
Degree Program
Expected Graduation Year
Interests
- Community Engagement
- Learning Sciences
- Race and Ethnic Studies
- Schooling and Immigration
- STEM, STEAM
Faculty Advisor
Education
- MA, University of California, Los Angeles, 2025
- B.S, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2018
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
- Eugene v. Cota-Robles Fellow
Select Publications
- Hernandez Romero, M., Perez, Y., & Beckett, L. K. (2023). Plantando Amor y Cultivando Unidad: A Story of Building and Sustaining an Immigrant-Led Community Garden in Partnership with a University. In Critical Campus Sustainabilities: Bridging Social Justice and the Environment in Higher Education (pp. 129-140). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
- Beckett, L. K., & Hernandez Romero, M. (2023). Developing a Praxis of Loving Relations: Lessons from a Community-University Partnership that Centers Undergraduate Research and Learning. In Critical Campus Sustainabilities: Bridging Social Justice and the Environment in Higher Education (pp. 117-127). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
- Beckett, L. K., Severance, S., Hernandez, M., Najera, A., & Pacheco, J. (2023). Exploring the Primacy of Cultural Strengths for Purposeful (Agri) cultural STEM Learning in a Mexican Immigrant Community. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2023, pp. 569-576. International Society of the Learning Sciences.