This series features Josephine’s current research project on affective pedagogies and its impact on students’ civic sensemaking about race-based public issues.
Check out preliminary findings from the pilot study of this project:
meet our creators
Jordan Brooks
Jordan Brooks
Jordan Brooks is a creator and owner of KNWSLF (pronounced Know Self). His art and research explore how Black parents curate Black art within their homeplaces to influence their children’s racial/ethnic identity development. KNWSLF stands for KNowledge, Wisdom, Self Love, and Fellowship. Jordan is a doctoral student at Iowa State University in the Social and Cultural Studies of Education program and has worked in Higher Education for over 10 years.
Esther Sing-Yu Ho
Esther Sing-Yu Ho
Esther is an LA-based artist/architect/designer/researcher. She is passionate about shaping equitable and dynamic environments. Her work in illustration, comics, and various built objects in public space, communicates real stories that prompt meaningful connections. She is a fan of her amusing cats, way too many house plants, painting for fun, flamin’ hot snacks, and homemade coffee.
Eunice Ho
Eunice Ho
Eunice Ho (she/her) is an Ethnic Studies educator, curriculum developer, and graphic designer who practices humanizing, healing-centered, praxis-driven, and place-based critical pedagogy. She is the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants. She received her BA in Ethnic Studies from UCSD and her M.Ed with an Emphasis in Ethnic Studies from UCLA’s Teacher Education Program. As a graphic designer, she seeks to use her skill set to support grassroots organizing, magnify data-driven research around inequity, and uplift youth voices; and as an educator through her involvement with the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium, she seeks to continue building the Ethnic Studies movement.
She is the designer of the logo for Mai Pedagogy Project.
Andrew Kohan
Andrew Kohan
Andrew Kohan can’t decide what he wants to be when he grows up, but for now he’s a working comics artist and illustrator regularly making trouble at Winnipeg City Hall. A trained community organizer with roots in the HIV/AIDS movement, he’s made art and noise with grassroots activists in DC, Chicago, Cleveland, and Toronto.
Nicky Rodriguez
Nicky Rodriguez
Nicky is a disabled, queer Puerto Rican comic artist, flatter, and colorist. She is the creator of the ongoing webcomic, The Unlucky Ones and the Edge of Nowhere, and the illustrator of Con Papá/With Papá. She started making autobio zines in 2018, exploring mental health, the impermanence of time and memory, existential ennui, and the meaning of home. She continues to explore these subjects in her fiction comics and is currently focused on her graphic novel endeavors and making zines about living with chronic migraine and occipital neuralgia. She is represented by Emmy Nordstrom Higdon of Westwood Creative Artists.
Angel Trazo
Angel Trazo
Angel Trazo (she/hers) is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at UC Davis. She is author of the children’s books We Are Inspiring: The Stories of 32 Asian American Women (2019) and Vanessa Unmuted (2021). Her comics and “visual notetaking” sketches have been published in academic journals such as ASAP Journal and Modern Language Studies. Her scholarship has been published in journals such as Intersections: Critical Issues in Education and Amerasia Journal. Angel’s current research is focused on Asian American youth cultures, specifically the Asian Baby Girl (ABG) subculture.
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