Marsal School faculty and graduate students awarded 2024 Anti-Racism Grants

The Anti-Racism Collaborative is a provost funded, NCID initiative intended to help support, connect, and amplify scholars across our U-M campus studying racial inequality, racial equity, and racial justice. 

2024 Anti-Racism Grants
Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research in partnership with NCID’s Anti-Racism Collaborative

• Constructing Exclusion: A Discourse Analysis of Arguments Justifying Preschool Suspension and Expulsion team leads: Erin Flynn (Marsal Family School of Education) and Dalia Avello-Vega (Portland State University)

2024 Anti-Racism Graduate Research Grants
Sponsored by NCID’s Anti-Racism Collaborative and Rackham Graduate School

• Bo-Kyung Byun (PhD Student in Higher Education), Who are the Gatekeepers?: How Admissions Officers’ Racial Identities Shape College Admissions Evaluations
• Davinia Rodriguez-Wilhelm (PhD Students in Higher Education), Unveiling Educational Gatekeeping and Supports: High School Teachers’ Recommendation Policies and Practices for Black and Latinx Students
• Nia Hall (PhD Students in Higher Education), Silenced Voices: Analyzing Institutional Responses to Student Activism and Free Speech on Campus
• Sarai Blanco Martinez (PhD Student in Educational Studies & Psychology), A Embodied Radical Healing in Latinx Immigrant Communities – A Photovoice Project
• Sarah Day Dayon (PhD Student in Educational Studies), An Exploration of What Allows Teachers of Color to Stay, Thrive, and Sustain Themselves in Educational Spaces
• Margaret Owusu (PhD Student in Educational Studies), Black Women Heal: Black Feminist Autoethnography as Liberatory Praxis