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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

Aja D. Reynolds is an Assistant Professor in the Teacher Education Department at Wayne State University. She received her doctorate degree in the Educational Policy Studies- Social Foundations program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her scholarly work has focused on her collaborative work in creating ‘fugitive’ or freedom spaces with Black girls through the use of art, activism and healing as she explores the geographies of Black girlhood. Her dissertation is titled “Ain’t Nobody Checking for Us: Race, Fugitivity and the Urban Geographies of Black Girlhood”. Aja has over 12 years of experience as an educator/youth worker. Her research examines Black girlhood identities and geographies in the neoliberal -carceral state to explore liberatory praxis. She is part of national education organizations, including the Education for Liberation Network, in which she organizes with teachers, youth and community organizations to develop more equitable educational structures for marginalized youth.

Dr. Reynolds will share insights from her scholarly work on creating fugitive spaces with Black girls.

Author

• Aja Reynolds, Wayne State University
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