Biography Selah Agaba is a joint doctoral student in Cultural Anthropology and Educational Policy Studies studying with Dr. Claire Wendland and Dr. Nancy Kendall. Her research focuses on the comprehensiveness and applicability of policies governing sexual and reproductive health issues for adolescents in East Africa. Specifically, Selah’s dissertation aims to understand adolescent pregnancy through a …
Biography Aaron Adan Aguilar is a Ph.D. student in Education Policy Studies. He is primarily interested in examining the dynamics in and around diverse schools that perpetuate racial and economic inequality. Born and raised in Texas, he earned a B.A. in English & Drama from Trinity University and a Masters in Educational Leadership from Texas …
Biography Johanny has a degree in Foreign Languages from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, in addition, she has a master’s degree in Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice from the University of Colorado-Boulder, through the Fulbright program.
Biography Yaa Oparebea Ampofo is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Policy Studies with a concentration in comparative and international education. Her research interests lie at the intersection of education decolonization, environmental studies, and sustainable development discourses. She is particularly interested in thinking through and within alternative and subaltern ecological frameworks of planetary …
Biography Batuhan Aydagül is an educational practitioner, policy analyst, and scholar with twenty-five years of experience across schools, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and governmental agencies in different geographies. Before starting his doctorate studies, Batuhan was the director of the Education Reform Initiative (ERI), a Turkish non-governmental think-and-do-tank in education. He is still advising the Teacher Network …
Biography Otavio Barros is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Education from the Universidade Federal do Piauí (Brazil) and a master’s degree in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. His research explores how …
Biography Farah is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, specializing in Comparative and International Education. Originally from Lahore, Pakistan, she holds a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Sociology. Her research focuses on education, gender and sexuality, reproductive and sexual health and rights (SRHR), and development. She examines sex education in schools …
Biography Indranila Bose is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, with a focus on Comparative and International Education. She holds a Master’s degree in History from the University of Calcutta and has taught undergraduate history courses in India. Her research looks at how education can engage …
Biography Adalberto “Beto” Castrejón is a Ph.D. student in the Educational Policy Studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is an Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences (ITP) Fellow as well as an Education Graduate Research Scholar (Ed-GRS) in the UW-Madison School of Education. He holds a B.A. in Business Marketing from the …
Biography Yenny Chavarría is a Colombian language teacher from the University of Antioquia, and a PhD student in Educational Policy Studies, also MS student in Curriculum and Instruction. Her research interests include critical theories, professional development, language, educational policies, human-earth relationships and rural education. Her current research explores how Colombian rural youth use language to …