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Dr. Fernández's scholarship is grounded in a decolonial feminist praxis.
Dr. Fernández's scholarship is grounded in a decolonial feminist praxis.
Through a community-based participatory action research (PAR) paradigm, that combines decolonial feminisms and LatCrit methodologies, such as testimonio, Dr. Fernández engages with communities to identify, address and transform social conditions affecting the quality of their lives. Her research justice orientation spans collaborations with youth in education settings and community organizing spaces, as well as Latinx immigrant families in the Greater Silicon Valley. The broad aims of her work are to cultivate and support individual and community wellbeing-healing, sociopolitical collective action, and thriving grounded in transformational justice-liberation. Together, these standpoints form the foundation for her research on youth activism, community organizing, and civic engagement as decolonial embodiments of sociopolitical citizenship.
Through a community-based participatory action research (PAR) paradigm, that combines decolonial feminisms and LatCrit methodologies, such as testimonio, Dr. Fernández engages with communities to identify, address and transform social conditions affecting the quality of their lives. Her research justice orientation spans collaborations with youth in education settings and community organizing spaces, as well as Latinx immigrant families in the Greater Silicon Valley. The broad aims of her work are to cultivate and support individual and community wellbeing-healing, sociopolitical collective action, and thriving grounded in transformational justice-liberation. Together, these standpoints form the foundation for her research on youth activism, community organizing, and civic engagement as decolonial embodiments of sociopolitical citizenship.
Madres Emprendedoras Community Based Participatory Action Research (CB-PAR)
Madres Emprendedoras Community Based Participatory Action Research (CB-PAR)
The Madres Emprendedoras CBPAR project is a community-centered and community-driven university collaboration to support the sociopolitical leadership, civic engegement and wellbeing of Mexican immigrant madres (mothers) in the Guadalupe Washington community.
To hear from the madres check-out media coverage of the "Madres Emprendedoras: Mosaicos de la Comunidad" mural unveiling celebration.
Sociopolitical Citizenship Participatory Action Research (SC-PAR)
Sociopolitical Citizenship Participatory Action Research (SC-PAR)
SC-PAR supports the on-campus organizing and wellbeing of student activists at Santa Clara University. Established as a collaborative project between Unity IV student activists and Dr. Fernández, SC-PAR is committeed to supporting student-activists documenting and amplifying their voices of resistance, activism and radical hope toward imagining the New University, while troubling the neoliberal university.
Engage with the stories of Unity IV student activists and allies via the "By Us, For Us: Photo-Narrative Exhibit."
Youth Activism for Justice & Sociopolitical Wellbeing
Youth Activism for Justice & Sociopolitical Wellbeing
Bridging multiple projects on youth activism and organizing, this work is centered on identifying the processes and practices that support socioemotional political wellbeing -- including the connections between sociopolitical development and socioemotional awareness among young people, especially within youth community organizing spaces.
This work builds on the International Study of Youth Organizing. Learn more by accessing the "Powerful Youth, Powerful Communities" Research Report.
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