Sophia Vázquez

Sophia Vázquez is a PhD student in Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. A former elementary educator and Cuban-American, she holds a MEd degree in Sociology of Education and an MA in Teaching. Her research interests center on educator identity, race, and culture; specifically, the affective and generational transmission of memory. Sophia has contributed to several research projects focused on antiracist teacher education and ethnic studies. She is currently a project manager with AC4: Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, & Complexity. She is also on a team developing a Latinidad curriculum for NYC public schools, working closely with youth cohorts through Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) and community stakeholders. Her dissertation plans to honor lived experience and diasporic educational storytelling through multimodal methods.