Claudia Triana Ipinza

Claudia Triana Ipinza is a doctoral candidate in the department of Educational Policy Studies. A scholar of comparative and international education, her research focuses on the inequities at the intersection of im/migration and education policies, displacement, and resistance. For over a decade, Claudia has served as a youth worker with refugee and im/migrant students and communities across the United States and abroad. Furthermore, she has led culturally-responsive research and evaluation projects with public schools aimed at supporting the needs of multilingual students.

Claudia’s dissertation, funded by Fulbright-Hays and NAEd/Spencer Foundation, examines how im/migrant categorization (refugee, deportee, returnee) produces educational inequality in Mexico. As an educational ethnographer, her scholarship is grounded on the need for border justice, and a recognition of the impact of U.S. empire on immigrant experiences.