Estee Hernández

I am a doctoral candidate in the Higher Education program at Florida State University, where I also serve as a Graduate Assistant for the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and a Teaching Assistant for our graduate-level social justice courses.

My dissertation focuses on the ways in which Chicana doctoral students, who aspire to the professoriate, develop a scholar-activist identity. A second prong of this research is how, then, this identity is (dis)embodied on social media. My broader research agenda serves women of color in academia, graduate students of color, and social media counter-communities and -cultures.

My epistemology is queer, Chicana, and feminist. I am a bridge. And just for fun: food is my love language.