RJS welcomes Brianna Ramirez, PhD, as the inaugural postdoctoral scholar with the Shop!

Brianna R. Ramirez, Ph.D. was born and raised in Long Beach, California with family roots in Guanajuato and Jalisco, México. She received her Ph.D. in Education Studies with a specialization in Critical Gender Studies from the University of California, San Diego. Brianna completed her master’s degree in the Social and Cultural Analysis of Education program at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and obtained her bachelor’s degree in Social Ecology with an Education minor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Her research draws from Critical Race, Latina/o Critical Race, and Chicana/Latina feminist epistemologies, methodologies, and theories to challenge normative forms of knowledge construction in higher education and to explore the intersecting systems and structures of marginality that shape access and transition to college for Students of Color.