Jalessa Bryant

Jalessa Bryant is a doctoral candidate in the Multicultural Education area of the Curriculum and Instruction Department. She earned her bachelor’s degree in American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley with a focus on Sociocultural Strategies for Child Development and a minor in Education in 2011. Jalessa has several years of pedagogical and community engagement experience in community-based educational spaces in California and Rhode Island where she served as a visual art designer, administrator, and knowledge worker. Her research explores the pedagogical activities and artifacts that emerge in Black community-based learning spaces. She focuses on decolonial praxis in curriculum planning and development, inclusive design of digital and geopolitical sites of learning, and triadic approaches to qualitative research on community-based teaching (CBT) and learning (CBL). She is currently a fellow of the American Evaluation Association’s Graduate Evaluation Diversity Internship (GEDI) program and an evaluation project assistant for the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Mentoring at UW–Madison.