Academia Will Not Save You: Stories of Being Continually “Underrepresented”

Abstract

Lynette Guzmán, PhD, is a mathematics education researcher and teacher educator at the University of Arizona. Motivated by experiences as a Latinx woman navigating academic spaces, her scholarship centers on addressing inequities in education for historically marginalized students with attention to identity and power. She examines discourses and practices in mathematics education to interrogate narrow epistemological and ontological perspectives on teaching and learning that often exclude students of color. Lynette enjoys working with prospective and practicing K-8 teachers to transform classrooms with equity-oriented and humanizing practices that value young people as knowers and creators.