Bethany L. PadronPh.D. student in the Interdisciplinary Humanities, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Chancellor's Fellow for Inclusive Excellence, 2023-25Graduate Student Representative, Academic Senate, BOARS, 2024-25IH Conference Chair, 2025CSU Stanislaus Social Justice Conference Planning Committee, 2024Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Anti Racism and Equity (CCCAE)Graduate Research Interests: Black Feminist Standpoint Theory, Black women's experiences, liberation practices, social locations, identity and self-hood, critical consciousness, and intersectional analyses-CSU Stanislaus, Summa Cum Lau de, First Gen./Honors/Tri-Alpha/McNair Scholar, BA in Social Sciences, emphases in Psychology, Communications, and Gender Studies, with a minor in Art History, 2023Modesto Junior College, Honors, AAs in Psychology, Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Administration of Justice. Science, Math & Engineering Award for Statistics and awards for Speech & Debate Interpretive performances, 2020Undergraduate Research: colorism, reimaging marginality, representations of race, social mobility, communication theoryPublished Works: 2024 CA Poet Laureate Project, Merced County: Merced County — CA Poet Laureate 2023 Stanislaus Connections, p. 8, May 232022 Scribendi, “Church Dress”2019 “Going Brave”, poetry chapbook2018 “Black Pearls”, poetry chapbook2018 Abstract Magazine TV, “Bones in a Dress”