Ph.D. Candidate in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education, University of pennsylvania

Monique / Mo Perry is a doctoral student in the Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education program at the Penn Graduate School of Education. Monique participated in the first iteration of Activism Beyond the Classroom, in Spring of 2017, while a master’s student in Education, Culture, and Society. Perry is also a trainer for the Penn LGBT Center and previously a graduate student assistant for the Alice Paul Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. 

She worked for several years as a community educator for Women Against Abuse providing professional development workshops and classes in the Philadelphia School District around teen dating violence, intimate partner violence, and healthy interpersonal relationships. Prior to WAA, she taught social justice service-learning as an AmeriCorps member in North Philadelphia. Before coming to Philadelphia, she worked as an English teaching assistant at the University of Michigan. She is a graduate from the College of Literature, Arts and Science at the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts. She studied a liberal arts curriculum with English and Political Science emphases.

Perry's research interests include gender, sexuality, critical pedagogy, mixed methodology, and intersectionality. Her goals include the expansion of research specifically surrounding school climate, child welfare, intimate violence, and adolescent relationship violence.  Additionally goals include building relationships and organizing structures with community groups, local schools, and academia. Her professional goals include teaching and instruction, teacher training, pedagogy and curriculum design, community advocacy and organizing, educational policy work, educational research and doctoral study.

What do they do?

“Our mission is to actively challenge, resist and dismantle systems of oppression that adversely impact the Black and Brown worker. Thus, we push for the social and economic liberation of the Black and Brown worker...Our mission stands at the intersection of both the Worker's Rights movement and the Black Lives Matter movement.”

How do they do it?

Workers’ Rights Advocacy; Community Building; Community Organizing; Community Consciousness Raising; Direct Action

Contacts

• Abdul-Aliy Muhammad

• Shani Akilah

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Ph.D. Student, Higher Education, University of Texas: Austin

Sarah is a graduate of Penn GSE’s Education, Culture and Society program, and a doctoral student in Higher Education at the University of Texas: Austin. They are a Boston native, former Americorps member, and organizer on Penn’s campus. In their time at Penn, Sarah founded FGLIQ, a group for First Generation Low-Income Queer students, and conducted research with Dr. Ed Brockenbrough.

You can read more about her work on campus in this article from the Daily Pennsylvanian.