ANTI-RACIST COALITIONS

From June 2020-2023, Alexia was a co-organizer of two higher education antiracist coalitions.

Alexia was a co-organizer of the online Do the Work Learning Community, a multi-institutional antiracist reading and discussion group of originally over 120 participants. Alexia worked with a group of eight co-administrators (higher education faculty across the US) to design an online antiracist learning and action faculty/staff community. Her major responsibilities included co-creating Community Agreements, co-organizing and actively participating in bi-weekly meetings, reading and discussing antiracist literature, enacting antiracist pedagogy and practices, posting resources to the Slack channel, and facilitating the Mixed BIPOC affinity space. 

Alexia also co-organized and co-facilitated an activist adjunct and junior faculty/staff coalition that initially started within the Department of Dance at SUNY Brockport. This coalition of contingent dance faculty was actively committed to an antiracist agenda that guided how we revolutionized our curriculum and pedagogies and made actionable change towards anti-oppression in our universities and lives. Alexia and three of her colleagues published an article with The Activist History Review (2020) on how they work together to reimagine power and privilege within their departments and classrooms. Alexia and coalition member Rebekah Chappell published a book chapter in 2024 entitled "Practicing togetherness as communities embodying social justice: What does it feel like and how do we know it’s happening?" from their work within this coalition.