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PhD Student in Urban Education

Michelle is a first-generation Colombian American educator and interdisciplinary scholar in Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She researches Latiné place-making in suburban spaces, focusing on the intersections of place, identity, and schooling. Her work highlights socio-spatial and educational inequities in segregated suburbs while centering community knowledge through participatory, oral history and arts-based methods. She works towards building public community archives and curricula that honor historically marginalized histories.