Moisés G. Contreras

Moisés G. Contreras is a PhD student in Education in the Culture, Institutions, and Society concentration at Harvard University. He is interested in the promise and potential of liberatory and humanizing education occurring within community-based educational spaces. He is also interested in the ways that Latine communities produce (public) art that—as scholar of decolonial aesthetics, Laura Pérez, puts it—“intend[s] decolonial effects.” Moisés’s work is informed by diverse youth work experiences both locally and transnationally, having been an English teaching assistant with the Fulbright Program in Italy and a tutor and mentor in a predominantly-Latine Chicago public high school with the AmeriCorps program, City Year. Moisés holds an MA in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Psychology and Italian, with a minor in Latina/Latino Studies, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.