Urban Education Student and Women of Color Archive Founder Awarded AAUW Fellowship for ‘Searching for Mami & Abuelita’
Wendy Barrales (Photo courtsey of Barrales)
Wendy Barrales, a public school educator and a doctoral student in the Urban Education Ph.D. program whose work spans activism, art, and scholarship, was recently awarded a dissertation fellowship from American Association of University Women (AAUW). It’s a particularly meaningful award for Barrales, who is also the founder of Women of Color Archive (WOCArchive), a “storytelling project that seeks to preserve the stories of our matriarchs, femmes, and non-binary folks of color.”
Barrales recently spoke to The Graduate Center about the fellowship, meeting her “found” family in New York and at the GC, and the importance of centering her family’s stories in her work:
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