Campus Directory

Division Social Sciences Division

Department/ College/ Unit Education Department

Title Doctoral Candidate

Affiliation Graduate

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Feminist Studies Department

Primary Office Location McHenry Library
0258

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours By appointment

Mail Stop Education Department

Biography, Education and Training

Doctoral candidate in Education with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies and a secondary concentration in Quantitative Social Sciences. My research investigates the politics of belonging in STEM education for marginalized communities. I bring experience in quantitative methods and qualitative methods; in addition to critical feminist frameworks, program empowerment evaluation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Research areas: STEM education, feminist pedagogies, educational equity, critical belonging frameworks, quantitative social science, mixed methods, intersectionality, program evaluation.

M.A. Education, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A. Psychology, Department of Cognitive Sciences

University of California, Irvine

Summary of Expertise

Graduate Student Researcher

• Center for Reimagining Leadership
• Heising-Simons Foundation
• Project Leverage

Internships

• Pan African Research Fellows (PARF) Sustainability Graduate Intern 

Teaching Interests

University of California - Santa Cruz

Graduate Student Instructor

• CMMU 30 - Numbers and Social Justice, Community Studies Department

TA/Readership

• EDUC 164 - Critical Perspectives in Urban Education, Education Department  
• EDUC 135 - Gender and Education, Education Department  
• EDUC 183- Children’s Mathematical Thinking, Education Department 
• EDUC 177- Teaching Linguistically Diverse Learners, Education Department  
• CMMU 30 - Numbers and Social Justice, Community Studies Department

University of California - Irvine

Instructor / Program Director

• SOCSCI 196- Global Connect

Awards, Honors and Grants

University of California – Santa Cruz

• UC President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellow (PPPF) 2026-2027
• American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellow 2026-2027
• Ethnic Studies Collaborative Fellow 2025-2026
• Graduate Pedagogy Fellow 2023-2025
• Services and Transfer And Re-entry Students (STARS) Fellowship 2022
• Regents Fellowship 2021-2022
• Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow 2021-2026

University of California – Irvine

• Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

Selected Publications

Mosqueda, E., Dektor, R., & Hertel, S. Language and literacy integration and their influence on teacher beliefs and practice in dual bilingual mathematics classrooms. In M. A. Bravo & K. Téllez (Eds.), Mathematics instruction in dual language classrooms: Theory and research that informs practice. Information Age Publishing.

Mednicoff, S., Mejía, S., Rashid, J. A., & Chubb, C. (2018). Many listeners cannot discriminate major vs. minor tone-scrambles regardless of presentation rate. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(4).

https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5055990