Mishuana Goeman, IRT ‘ 94 is the chair and professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Buffalo. Her community-engaged work is devoted to several digital humanities projects and is widely published in monographs and peer-reviewed articles including Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Settler Aesthetics: The Spectacle of Originary Moments in the New World (University of Nebraska Press, 2023).
Alyssa Garcia, IRT ’00 is currently a College Adviser and Assistant Professor of Instruction in Gender & Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University. Alyssa holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Jonathan Anderson, IRT ’01 holds a master’s degree in elementary education, teaching, and divinity. Jonathan is a teacher at Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina.
Melanee Harvey, IRT ’07 is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Art History at Howard University. Melanee was awarded the Genevieve Young Fellowship in Writing by the Gordon Parks Foundation in 2023. Melanee is currently writing her first book entitled, Patterns of Permanence: African Methodist Episcopal Architecture and Visual Culture.
David Sterling Brown, IRT ’08 is an associate professor at Trinity College in the English Department. David earned tenure and published his first book with Cambridge University Press entitled Shakespeare’s White Others. More information on David’s book can be found via these published articles: Cambridge University Press, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Trinity College.
E. Cassandra Dame-Griff, IRT ’10 is an Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at Gonzaga University. Her work examines the intersections of anti-fat and anti-Latina/o/x public rhetoric, focusing on the racialization of fatness as evidence of Latina/o/x pathology and unassimilability.
LaShaya Howie, IRT ’14 received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. LaShaya is currently a postdoc at Columbia University.
Mo Torres, IRT ’14 earned a PhD in Sociology at Harvard last spring. Mo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Junior Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows.
Gabriel Evans, IRT ’18 is the founder of a virtual hub called thebulletinboard. Gabriel has had a commitment to education as he continued to on to attain his Masters in Sociology and Criminology from the University of Arkansas. He is an inaugural cohort alumnus of the American Water Works Association Transformative Water Leadership Academy and is currently an All In Education Adelante Fellow.
Following IRT’s example Gabriel is working to address the lack of diversity and opportunities to work and sustainable career opportunities for Black people and communities. He founded thebulletinboard with a mission to connect Black people and communities to meaningful careers and economic advancement opportunities in the energy, environment, climate, water, and sustainability sectors (EECWS).
Ezra Sergent-Leventhal, IRT ’20 graduated from Northwestern’s Higher Education MS program and recently accepted a position working for the City of Colleges of Chicago. Ezra is doing college access work with alternative schools across the city of Chicago.
Sumit Karn, IRT ’22 and Yanil De La Rosa-Walcott, IRT ’19 recently met up at a conference.
Courtney Murray, IRT ’18 is spotlighted as one of the Library of Congress 2023 Junior Fellows. Courtney is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in English and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University.
Joe Baez, IRT ’18 was recently published in ReVista: The Harvard Review of Latin America. Joe’s article about the life of Laura Aguilar, “The Complexities of Art and Life,” can be read here. Joe is a PhD candidate in American Studies at the George Washington University.
Ain Ealey, IRT ’21 a second-year CDA student won 1st place in the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance 2nd Annual Dr. Clifton K. Meador Health Equity Virtual Poster Session competition.
Ain’s poster, entitled “Increasing Capacity and Wellbeing When Moving Beyond the Benefits Cliff”, draws from her work as Lead Health and Wellness Navigation Specialist with the Tennessee Alliance for Economic Mobility at the Martha O’Bryan Center. Her poster was selected through a multi-tier scientific review that included an external review from the Safety Net Consortium of Middle Tennessee. As the recipient of 1st place, she received a cash award and was recognized at the 2nd Annual Dr. Clifton K. Meador Lectureship this past October 2023.
Congratulations to the following IRT alumni who have received a
2023 Ford Foundation Fellowship Award
~Pre-Doctoral Competition~
- Sierra Rebecca Mondragón, IRT ’21 – University of Washington, Native American History
- Ezinne Nwankwo, IRT ’17 – University of California Berkeley, Computer Science
- Minh Vu, IRT ’19 – Yale University, American Studies
~Dissertation Competition~
- Daniel Morales Armstrong, IRT ’17 – University of Pennsylvania, History
- Maria Pabón, IRT ’15 – Yale University, Comparative Literature
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