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• In Event: Vice-Presidential Session/Division G Graduate Student Session. Responding to Academic Precarity With Fugitive Pedagogy: Creating Spaces for Freedom in Community

Abstract

Dr. Chrissy Hernandez is a writer, organizer, and educator from Salinas/Prunedale, California. After working as a spoken word teaching artist for over a decade in a Bay Area continuation high school, public arts high school, juvenile hall, middle school, and other community sites, she is now an assistant professor of service learning and social action at California State University, Monterey Bay. She serves as the faculty coordinator of the Student Leadership in Service Learning program and teaches courses in participatory action research (PAR). She holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, Stanford University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Hernandez is also the managing editor of Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators with AK Press.

Dr. Hernandez will share insights from her scholarship in liberation education and women of color feminisms as well as from her experience in different educational contexts.

Author

• Chrissy Hernandez, California State University - Monterey Bay
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