Anisa Yudawanti (she/her) is a second-year doctoral student in Race, Inequality, and Language in Education at Stanford's Graduate School of Education. Anisa is the proud daughter of Indonesian immigrants and was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin.
Drawing on her experience as a public school youth worker and high school social studies teacher, Anisa studies young people’s racialized relationship to space and place at school. She is especially interested in understanding youth of color’s movement and navigational practices through the lens of everyday forms of resistance and refusal. Her broader research agenda engages with critical arts-based methods and socio-spatial re/counter-mapping of school space. She situates her current research in the Midwest and the Bay Area.