Meet The Anti-racist Teaching Collective

​This work was made possible through a Teaching and Technology Grant from the Faculty Collaborative for Teaching Innovation.

Dr. Allia Ida Griffin

Allia is a Lecturer in the Department of Ethnic Studies at Santa Clara University. She earned her B.A. in English at Santa Clara University, her M.A. in English with a concentration in African American Literature at CSU Chico, and her Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies from UC San Diego. Her research and teaching interests include: African American Literature and Performance, Carceral Studies, and MENA/SWANA Diaspora Studies. ​

Dr. Jesica Siham Fernandez

Jesica is an Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at Santa Clara University. Trained as a social-community psychologist, she is commitment to engaging in social justice research that decolonizes knowledge, theory, and methods by centering individual and community experiences through the use of community based participatory action research (CBPAR) paradigms rooted in decolonial feminisms and critical race theory. Her recent scholarship has sought to trouble social constructions of citizenship, at the intersections of race, age and gender, as well as document the sociopolitical subjectivities and political engagement of Latinx communities and young people.

Sydney Thompson

Khiely Jackson

Sydney has bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineer and Ethnic Studies. Sydney is passionate about working to dismantle oppressive power structures through community empowerment and education and hopes to become a teacher in the future. 
Some books that have been particularly formative for Sydney are Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon, Pushout by Monique Morris and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange.

Khiely has a bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies, will be attending San Francisco State University in the Fall of 2020 in the African American Studies Masters Program, and is hoping to pursue a Ph.D. in African American Studies. Khiely is committed to engaging in thoughtful discussion and discourse on literature and art involving critical race theory and black feminism. She believes that meaningful social change stems from shifting our cultural, political, and historical literacy.
Books that have been formative for Khiely include Beloved by Toni Morrison, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange, and Tears We Cannot Stop by Micheal Eric Dyson.  ​