Felicia Graham is a PhD candidate in Social Science & Comparative Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. At UCLA her teaching and scholarship focus on youth civic engagement, global media, and decolonizing epistemologies of the global south. Guided by Chicana feminist theory, her current research engages youth in a political and economic critique of media to become advocates for culturally, historically, and politically responsive education based on human dignity, earthly respect, and rooted in the practice of love.
Felicia is a student fellow for the Initiative to Study Hate, a recipient of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement’s VOICE initiative and serves as a graduate researcher for the UCLA Dialogue across Difference initiative. Felicia received her Master's in Global Studies, Political Economy, and Sustainable Development from UCSB, and her BA in Political Science and History from UCSD. Outside of teaching and research Felicia values being immersed in the rich cultural and environmental offerings of Southern California with her daughter.