This graduate student is available to deliver lectures to your K-12 classroom at no charge. All requests MUST be booked through the Middle East Center Speaker's Bureau.
Gwendalynn Roebke (they/them/theirs) is a Philosophy PhD student interested in interdisciplinary research around trauma/learned helplessness, structural oppression, identity construction (of individuals and communities), and culpability of the action or in action of marginalized peoples given what reality has presented them with. All of this research is done with a commitment to an anti-colonial end, where the aim is to offer collaborative steps forward rather than empty extractivist observation. They are interested in cross examining attitudes in the wake of colonialism and imperialism from the SWANA region (more specifically North Africa) with those in Latin America (more specifically Colombia and its other coastal neighbors) given similar commitments to "whitening" socio-political caste systems .