My research and scholarly interests include the socialization of graduate students of color with disabilities and the ways in which they experience marginalization due to the intersection of power and privilege around race and disability. I use Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) as the theoretical framework to analyze how the intersection of disability and other marginalized identities can have a compounding, adverse affect on graduate students of color.

DisCrit is a theoretical framework that draws on the work of Disability Studies and Critical Race Theory (Annama, Connor, & Ferri, 2016a). This framework, heavily influenced by People of Color and people with dis/abilities, considers how the intersection of dis/ability and other marginalized identities can have a compounding, adverse effect on a young child, person, or family (Annamma, Connor, & Ferri, 2013). DisCrit specifically considers the marginalization that children of color with dis/abilities and their families experience due to the intersection of power and privilege around race and dis/ability.

Graduate Student Researcher, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, The George Washington University, November 2021 - Present

Second-Year Research Project, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2022-2023