I am a critical feminist scholar, educator and author. My interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching focus on the relationships among capitalism, de/coloniality, international development, and education using transnational feminist, race, and political economic approaches.
I am the author of The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development (University of California Press 2018), winner of the National Women’s Studies Association’s Sara A. Whaley Prize.
I am currently writing the monograph, Silicon Futures: How Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists are Influencing Education around the World, with support of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2024-2025).
My academic writing has been published in scholarly journals, such as Feminist Studies, Feminist Theory, Educational Researcher, Race, Ethnicity & Education, Journal of Education Policy, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Globalisation, Societies & Education, Education Policy Analysis Archives, and International Journal of Education Development.
I have written essays for The New Yorker, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Fast Company, and The Huffington Post based on my research.
I have also appeared on BBC’s Business Daily, NPR’s Marketplace, Wisconsin Public Radio’s Central Time, and Northeast Public Radio’s 51%.
My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Fulbright, Fulbright Hays, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
I am an editor of Feminist Studies, the first scholarly journal in the field of gender, feminist, and women’s studies in the U.S.
I am a University Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge.
Together with colleagues at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade do Estado da Bahia, I am co-coordinator of the Transnational Anti-racism in Education Research & Exchange Programme at the University of Cambridge, funded by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES).
I was previously a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. I have also taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Stanford University. I was also postdoctoral researcher at the Haas Institute for a Fair & Inclusive Society (now Othering & Belonging Institute) at University of California, Berkeley. I received my Ph.D. (2012) from the Social and Cultural Studies Program in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley with a Designated Emphasis in Gender, Women, and Sexuality from the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies. I also hold an M.A. in Curriculum & Teaching from Michigan State University, and a B.S. in Sociology and Human and Organizational Development with a minor in African American & Diaspora Studies from Vanderbilt University. Prior to graduate school, I was a high school teacher in the U.S. and Honduras.
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