about

I am a sixth year doctoral candidate working on my dissertation tentatively titled: “To Live in the Along: Refugee Youth Organizing and Intergenerational Learning”. 

This project examines out of school learning with refugee students 2017-2024 and in an emergent cross-cultural youth council in Chicago. Drawing on frameworks for intergenerational learning and action research, I examine how refugee and immigrant youth develop their identities and notions of belonging rooted in grassroots organizing.

I completed my undergraduate degree at Northwestern University studying German and Human Development in Context in the School of Education and Social Policy. My pronouns are she/her. 

Key words: youth participatory action research (YPAR), refugee and immigrant learners, intergenerational learning, organizing, spatial justice