The Division G Graduate Student Executive Committee consists of three subcommittees: (1) Campus Liaisons (CL), (2) Mentoring (MT) and (3) Student Outreach & Technology (SOT). Each subcommittee has been off to a great start planning for the the 2014-2015 academic year to meet the needs of graduate students across the country. Below you will find a brief description of each subcommittee’s goals and its members.
At the 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, be sure to look out for:
· Mentoring Pre-Conference Program
· Student Session - Social Context and Social Media: Extending Our Research through a Professional Online Presence
· Fireside Chat- Social Contexts and Public Research: Ways We Engage Educational Stakeholders and Policymakers to Enact Change
· Campus Liaisons Coffee Meet & Greet
Clemson University
My research interests pertain to Black males and the formation of their science identity, multicultural education, and educational equality and justice.
Eric Felix
Junior Graduate Student Representative
eric.felix@usc
University of Southern California
My research interests include: community college and the transfer experience, college access and equity issues for underrepresented students, educational experiences of young men of color, and the critical examination of race in higher education policy.
Currently, we have Division G college/university partnerships with 28 institutions across the country. This is a significant increase (50%) from 2014-2015 when we had 10 partner institutions. Graduate students serve as liaisons between AERA and their campuses across the country by connecting AERA to graduate students, institutions, faculty, and facilitating the conversations held at the annual conference throughout the year. At each institution, these liaisons create and coordinate events of interest for AERA Division G members. We have also created structures for sustaining for future campus liaison members (e.g. documents that explain how campus liaison role is defined, creating a welcome packet, highlighting events other campuses have offered, etc.).
University of Arizona
My research interests focus on preparing elementary preservice teachers to work with English Language Learners in an equitable manner given the larger sociopolitical contexts of schools, schooling, and policy.
RikkiLynn Archibeque
Campus Liaison Subcommittee Representative
[email protected]
Arizona State University
My research interests include the cultural and political dynamics, as well as classroom practices pertaining to the education of American Indian students living on reservations. Other research interests include multicultural education, school organization, and educational policy and its impact on opportunities for marginalized student populations.
Berenice Sanchez
Indiana University
Berenice is interested in educational experiences of marginalized populations, cultural centers, critical race theory, and social justice education.
The mentoring subcommittee is planning a Mentoring Pre-Conference program (MPP) to take place the first day of the 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Currently, we are targeting graduate students at various stages in their respective programs. This half-day workshop is designed to provide resources for graduate students and facilitate relationships with faculty, helping to create a network of mentors to troubleshoot issues and contact for support.
Michigan State University
My research focuses on the ways symbolic violence is enacted against racially and culturally marginalized students in U.S. K-12 institutions. More importantly, it serves as a means to explore how students themselves can begin to challenge these covert, yet grossly dehumanizing practices.
University of California, Los Angeles
My research interests center around student, teacher, and community voice in the pursuit of educational justice. My current research is on teachers’ experiences with teaching mathematics for social justice.
The Ohio State University
My research focuses on how Somali refugee communities (both locally and globally) make sense of school readiness, early childhood education, and disability.
This year our committee is working to ignite nationwide discussions amongst faculty and graduate students concerning topics that are timely and pertinent to the scholarship concerning the relationship between educational processes and the social contexts of education in which they occur. To do this, we will be coordinating a series of podcasts throughout the school year.
The Ohio State State University
In my research, I mostly focus on the ways in which race, language, and migration shape the educational experiences of Black women in various communities across the African diaspora.
My research focuses on the literacies and language practices of Spanish-speaking families in demographically transitioning communities and how these intersect with those in programmatic family literacy settings.
University of California, Riverside
My research interests are a combination of my passions – leadership, social justice and equity, particularly in schools with culturally and linguistically diverse students. What fascinates me is leader’s axiological philosophy (values, beliefs and moral purposes) underpinning their leadership for social justice praxis, including both local and international educational contexts.