Melanie Bertrand
University of California, Los Angeles - education
Melanie Bertrand is a doctoral candidate in Urban Schooling at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Using ethnography and Critical Discourse Analysis, she studies the potential of Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)—youth-driven, collective research and advocacy—to challenge systemic racism in education.
Bertrand currently volunteers as one of the coordinators of the Council of Youth Research, which is also the subject of her dissertation and on-going research. The Council provides opportunities for black and Latino high school students to conduct critical research and supports them in the college-application process.
DISSERTATION TITLE
Working Toward Change: Youth Researchers Challenging Systemic Racism in Education
