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Kristian Contreras
She | Her | Hers
Creative • Educator • Facilitator • Strategist • Daydreamer
Syracuse University
August 2018 - May 2023
Ph.D., Cultural Foundations of Education
Certificate of Advanced Study, Women and Gender Studies
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
August 2012 - May 2014
Ed.M., Higher Education Administration – Student Affairs Administration
University of Delaware
August 2008 - May 2012
B.A., English
Interested in learning more about my professional experiences? Explore my Curriculum Vitae (CV) here!
What I've Learned: From the B.A. to the Ph.D.
Musings from the Ivory Tower
P.h.D., Cultural Foundations
School of Education
Syracuse University,
What I've Learned: You will, sometimes, be as invisible in your classrooms as you are made to feel in the real world. You must ask, how am I complicit in my own erasure?
E.d.M.,Higher Education & Student Affairs Graduate School of Education
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
What I've Learned: Being the first (insert identity here) or one of the "only" (insert identity here) is not an accomplishment - you will grow once you begin to consider who you are beyond the deficits associated with marginality. Who do we become under the label of "token"?
B.A., English Literature
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware
What I've Learned: Being the first in your family will create a distance between you and the community you left to earn this degree. Remember the knowledge producers at home who taught you to survive this world - who are you in the absence of the diploma?
Professional Highlights
Campus Spotlight Award, 2021
Student Centers and Programming Services, Syracuse University
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2020
The Graduate School, Syracuse University
Women of Color Leadership Project Award, 2019
National Women's Studies Association
Annuit Coeptis Award, 2018
American College Personnel Association
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