Rachael Stephens is a joint Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology and Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Rachael specializes in issues of socioeconomic inequality, (sub)urban political economy, racial capitalism, and the politics of knowledge production. Her research, teaching, and community work are driven by a commitment to building more democratic and equitable communities both in higher education and beyond. Rachael is especially dedicated to doing this work within the Greater Hartford metro-region, where she has conducted ethnographic and community-based research, as well as participatory filmmaking projects, for over thirteen years. In addition to conducting her own interdisciplinary, mixed-methods research, Rachael also has substantial experience teaching research methods and advising student research projects in anthropology, urban studies, and education at the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, and Columbia University.  Rachael is driven to work alongside students and faculty to co-construct educational environments in which all participants can practice new, more transformative ways of relating to their selves, to others, and to our shared realities.

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