The Center for the Education of Women+ features doctoral candidate Yvonne Garcia 

The Center for the Education of Women+ (CEW+) features Marsal School doctoral candidate Yvonne Garcia in their latest newsletter. 

Named the 2023 Jean W. Campbell Scholar by CEW+, Garcia’s research on epistemic injustice "reshapes our understanding of the experience of marginalized students in graduate education," the center notes. “Yvonne envisions developing supportive structures that honor diverse perspectives in teaching and learning.”

Garcia says, “Epistemic injustice suggests that there are unjust structures in meaning-making and knowledge production where only dominant philosophical traditions are deemed worthy of academic attention and merit.” Her current research proposes that graduate students’ lack of agency within their own research—caused by epistemic injustice—is a key reason for low degree completion. 

Garcia intends to work as a scholar-practitioner who supports graduate student degree completion and helps to develop supportive structures that remedy problems caused by epistemic injustice. Already, she is recognized as a “critically important scholar-practitioner for the future of higher education.”