Biography

Jennifer Uribe (they, them, she) is a phd candidate in the department of Sociology at UCLA. In undergrad, they studied what factors influence racial and ethnic identity choices amongst second-generation Afro-Latinxs. They found that gender was most important in defining racial identity. After college, they worked as a Research Assistant and Analyst in the spheres of Public Policy Evaluation and Public Opinion. This led them to think more deeply about intra-group variability and analyze the complexities of race and place more carefully alongside policy creation and evaluation.

Their master’s paper was concerned with the making of a legible Afro-Latinx identity in visual spaces, particularly with how Dominican cultural workers contend with their home country’s national patrimony and form visual landscapes in the US. They are still working on turning these findings and their undergraduate research into a publishable paper. If you would like to work together please contact them.

For their dissertation, they are turning to study questions of governmental failure in New York City along three axes: race, gender, and class. They are exploring how black women in the Bronx, New York make life within ecologies of disinvestment specifically public transportation and public housing. This project is concerned with the domestic sphere and has implications and significance for concepts of politics and power, current policy outcomes and their legacies, as well as reorganization of interest groups and policy priorities. This project engages with black decolonial feminist concepts of justice and redress. If you would like to work together or have any specific insight to share, please contact them.