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More Than the First Year: Queer Students Narrating Belonging Across Early College Transition Through Photovoice

This study explores how queer first and second year students narrate and make meaning of belonging across their early college experience. Using Photovoice as a participatory research method, the study centers queer students as visual and narrative storytellers, moving beyond first-year transition frameworks to examine how belonging unfolds, shifts, and is contested over time. Grounded in Queer Theory and sense of belonging scholarship, this research attends to both the relational and structural conditions that shape whether belonging for queer students is genuinely possible. Advised by Dr. Maximilian T. Schuster, University of Pittsburgh.

CRT Collective — The Bell Ringer, 2025

Through the Lens: Capturing the 2020 Huntington Beach Riot

A personal reflection on photographing a Black Lives Matter protest in Huntington Beach, California documenting resistance, visibility, and the ongoing fight for racial and social justice.

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Loud & Queer Gallery, 2026

Bayard Rustin

A written tribute to Bayard Rustin the queer Black organizer whose brilliance made the 1963 March on Washington possible, and whose erasure from history reflects the ongoing cost of intersectional identity.

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