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Chandler P. Miranda is a doctoral candidate at New York University and is currently conducting her dissertation research at a high school for recently arrived immigrant teenagers. Her research focuses on school culture and schooling practices for immigrant youth. She taught high school science for seven years in San Benito, Texas, and in Barranquilla and Bogota, Colombia, before pursuing a doctoral degree.

Maryam Asenuga is an undergraduate senior at Duke University, where she created the nation's first undergraduate Pride Invitational for prospective LGBTQIA+ students. Maryam is currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy and Arabic. She is interested in policymaking and implementation and activism. In her free time, Maryam mentors and teaches refugee youth in mathematics and science and aids in their transition to American culture.

Felicia Graham (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Social Science & Comparative Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. At UCLA her teaching and scholarship focus on youth civic engagement, global media, and decolonizing epistemologies of the global south. Guided by Chicana feminist theory, her current research engages youth in a political and economic critique of media to become advocates for culturally, historically, and politically responsive education based on human dignity, earthly respect, and rooted in the practice of love. Felicia is a student fellow for the