Postdoctoral Research Fellow
My research sits between computing education, learning sciences, and speculative education. I regularly work in making and makerspace contexts, aiming to better understand how youth of color work to (re)define, (re)organize, and (re)imagine making and makerspaces, especially as they are used with STEM-oriented learning environments. Through my work, I aim to surface alternative futures for engaging in STEM disciplines that center the desires of the youth and their communities. I am currently a postdoc at the University of Texas at El Paso, working with the Hopper-Dean Center of Excellence for K-12 Computer Science Education. I recently finished my PhD in Information and Educational Studies at the University of Michigan.
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Email: mrperez14 @ utep.edu
In these pages, you can find some resources scholarships and learning programming/computer science. They are oriented towards people who experience marginalization in tech fields, such as Women, LGBTQ+ folks, and Black, Latinx/e, and Indigenous people.
Blog: https://www.tumblr.com/mez-rperez
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mez-rperez.bsky.social (@mez-rperez.bsky.social)
Github: https://github.com/mez-rperez
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=cLT3l_IAAAAJ&hl=en
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makewithmez/
Instructables: https://www.instructables.com/member/mez-perez/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-renae-perez/