Rachel Zukiwski-Pezim, Program Coordinator

Rachel Zukiwski-Pezim (she/her) is a part-time graduate student in the Gender and Social Justice Studies MA Program at the University of Alberta with a BA in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Dalhousie University. She also currently serves as Program Coordinator for the Intersections of Gender Signature Area at UAlberta. Her research interests are extensive and include feminist historiography, critical race theory, decolonization, social justice praxis, and intersectional theory and practice. She believes in dynamic and accessible academic research and writing, and thinks all academics should do variations on the Bechdel test when looking at their data and sources - scan for BIPoC voices, queer and trans folks, disablity frameworks, class strata, and religious affiliations, among others. For Rachel, part of the decolonialization of academia is allowing for new and radical digressions from and dismantlings of the imperialist white supremacist capitalist colonial heteropatriarchy that invades and occupies every part of the neoliberal academic state.

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