Sarah’s research examines how marginalized student activists navigate and resist oppressive structures within and beyond higher education, such as settler colonialism and neoliberalism. Grounded in abolitionist and decolonial frameworks, her work explores how student activism operates as a form of transformative resistance that critiques oppressive systems while advancing justice-oriented visions of education and social change. A Latine and first-generation scholar, Sarah’s praxis bridges research and organizing to center justice-oriented approaches to education and the creation of liberatory learning spaces. She also serves as a mobilizer for the Graduate Student Employees Union (GSEU) and as a Graduate Representative-at-Large for AERA Division J (Postsecondary Education).