Contributors

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

Allia Ida Griffin

Allia is an Iranian American writer and educator. She earned her Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies from UC San Diego and currently teaches in the Ethnic Studies Department at Santa Clara University. Her work has been published in Lateral and contemptorary. ​

Jesica Siham Fernández

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 engineering 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 from Santa Clara University, is currently attending San Francisco State University as a master's candidate in Ethnic Studies, and is hoping to pursue a Ph.D. She is committed to engaging in critical discourse on literature and art involving Black feminism and Marxism. Khiely believes that meaningful social change stems from shifting our cultural, political, and historical literacy. Her academic 
research focuses on gender, sexuality, and capitalism in relation to the history and modern reincarnations of slavery. 

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 When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors.