Aaron Adan Aguilar is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational Policy Studies. His research focuses on how Ed-Tech platforms and other digital technologies are reshaping K-12 American schools and rewiring the way we think about education. Aaron holds a Masters degree in Educational Leadership from Texas Christian University and was a public educator …
Eli is a second-year MFA student from southern Utah whose practice centers on photography, video, and performance art. His work explores themes of identity, place, and embodied experience.
Shaniya Auxier (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Department of Counseling Psychology. She received her BA in Psychology with Honors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022, with a minor in Gender and Women’s Studies (GWS). With attention to critical theories and power dynamics, her primary research interests include how patients of low social …
Jami Balicki is a descendent of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin whose work is grounded within the histories and stories passed down to her through her matriarchal lineage. Her art practice is collaborative and multidisciplinary, incorporating photography, printmaking, papermaking, and writing to trace the intersections between history, community, and personal experience. Presentations Artist talk: in …
Ayshea is a PhD student in Curriculum and Instruction and a recent graduate of African American Studies MA. Her research uncovers the entanglement of Blackness and physics through space and time. For her master’s she conducted an archival study on Liberatory Physics and ways that Black educators in the mid-1960s engaged with this concept. Her …
Madeline Blong is a 2nd year PhD student in ELPA. Her work focuses on K-12 mathematics education as it pertains to Indigenous knowledge systems in Wisconsin. As a citizen of the Menominee nation, she calls Wisconsin home and is excited to work backward towards an education system that brings people and land together.
Rachelle Brown is a first year Ph.D student in the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis program. She has four years of experience working in Higher Education Student Affairs, specifically in the area of Career and Professional Development. Prior to starting her career she attended University of West Georgia (M.Ed Student Affairs) and Tennessee State University …
Jalessa Bryant is a doctoral candidate in the Multicultural Education area of the Curriculum and Instruction Department. She earned her bachelor’s degree in American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley with a focus on Sociocultural Strategies for Child Development and a minor in Education in 2011. Jalessa has several years of pedagogical and community …
Adalberto “Beto” Castrejón is a Ph.D. student in the Educational Policy Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is an Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences (ITP) Fellow as well as an Education Graduate Research Scholar (Ed-GRS) in the UW-Madison School of Education. He holds a B.A. in Business Marketing from the University …
Sophia Chleborad is a dedicated Ph.D. student in School Psychology within the Educational Psychology department. She earned her B.S. in Education and Human Sciences from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2019. Following graduation, Sophia gained valuable experience as an Early Childhood Research Associate at the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, and Schools. …