I’m currently pursuing a PhD in Teaching Learning and Technology at Lehigh University. My research focuses on how Black and Latina girls navigate media and negotiate mediated representations of girls and women like them.
The increasing need for our youth to be media literate is at the forefront of my coursework and community work as I strive to encourage girls and women to analyze media content and reject images that limit their potential.
I’m also interested in social media and how it influences every aspect of communication and gives us the opportunity to become engaged in social media for the social good.
We spend our lives with a device close at hand and yet spend little time thinking about how it impacts us in both big and small ways.
This is especially true for our youth who spend 9 hours a day with media, but who have never truly been taught how to navigate a landscape that was designed to make them consumers before they really even know what that word means.
