Claudia Triana Ipinza is a doctoral candidate in the department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A scholar of comparative and international education, her research focuses on the inequities at the intersection of im/migration and education policies, displacement, and resistance. For over a decade, Claudia has served as a youth worker with refugee and im/migrant students and communities across the United States and abroad. Furthermore, she has led culturally-responsive research and evaluation projects with public schools aimed at supporting the needs of multilingual students. Claudia’s dissertation, funded by Fulbright-Hays and NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship, examines how im/migrant categorization (refugee, deportee, returnee) produces educational inequality in Mexico. As an educational ethnographer, her scholarship is grounded on the need for border justice, and a recognition of the impact of U.S. empire on immigrant experiences.

Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, Claudia worked at the New York City Department of Education. She is a proud alumna of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, and holds a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, as well as an M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University.