POSITIONALITY

​ ​ Alexia is an educational scholar who is a US born, queer, gender nonconforming, neurodivergent, and white-bodied Latina of mixed ancestry. She grew up on the lands of the Haudenosaunee people in the place colonized as Buffalo, New York. Alexia is a heritage speaker of Español, where both Spanish and English were her first languages as a young child. Alexia's role as a co-organizer of two antiracist faculty coalitions, her lived experiences as a member of Latinx and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) collectives, and her values as an early childhood and dance educator shape her commitments to enacting community-based transformation of how we relate and to the re-culturing of institutions of learning through feminist and abolitionist teaching and research praxes.