Teacher | Researcher | Learner | Writer | Connector
Ph.D. Candidate in Religious Ethics
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Hello! My name is Noemi (pronounced no-ehh-mee) and I aspire to become a scholar-activist of migration ethics and religious studies.
Over the last fourteen years I have spent moments learning directly from and with migrant communities across the U.S./Mexico border and from a few cities and rural areas both in Mexico and the United States. I now find myself drawn back to where I first migrated and grew up, in the beautifully diverse and vibrant region of San Luis Obispo County, to continue my education and hopefully contribute to educational inclusion.
By leveraging my expertise and knowledge, I aim to foster inclusivity, cultivate diversity, and empower people to thrive and become active contributors to the social fabric and economic prosperity of our shared community.
My research centers migrant women’s narratives of survival, agency, and ethical navigations in the process of migration. I use ethnography, testimonio, and an intersectional approach to my studies and pedagogy. I am in my final year of my ethnography and will finish my dissertation by the summer of 2025.
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Hermanas is my first book, co-authored with Natalia Kohn Rivera and Kristy Garza Robinson. It was a work of love as I sought to raise the voices of women who are often overlooked in Christian biblical narratives. Hermanas combines personal stories with various biblical interpretation methods to highlight how twelve women in the Bible used their agency and exercised their leadership. Natalia, Kristy, and I range in our theological and religious perspectives, but I wrote this in hopes of inspiring more Latina thinkers and leaders to write and pursue authorship. I hope for the diversification of the written voices that are said to represent Latinidad.
Noemi Vega Quiñones 