Yoon-Ramirez
Injeong Yoon-Ramirez
I am a community-engaged artist, educator, and scholar. My academic position as an Endowed Assistant Professor of Art Education at the University of Arkansas as well as experiences of K-12 teaching and community organizing have shaped my identity as an activist scholar, who work for social transformation. As a community educator-organizer, I founded a community program "Entretejer/Interweave Community School" in Springdale, Arkansas.
My research projects are deeply interconnected with my teaching and community organizing. Academically, my work addresses critical race feminism and its pedagogical implications, decolonial education, transnational feminisms, and translanguaging pedagogy. Currently, I am co-editing a transdisciplinary anthology, “Transnational Feminist Arts Praxis and Pedagogy for Decolonization: Critical Engagements with Arts and Activism” (Routledge, forthcoming in 2022, www.decolonialartspraxis.com ). The book, as a collaborative project, features various forms of writings and artworks created by decolonial feminist artists, activists, educators, and scholars based in Bolivia, Canada, Mexico, Nigeria, South Korea, and the United States.
As a director of "Entretejer/Interweave", I organize art-based bilingual classes and workshops for working-class Latina/o families and adults. This community engagement has been central to my educator-scholar identity and practice; I am currently writing a manuscript on how to develop a critically engaged scholarship through critical race feminist praxis.
Based on my works on social justice and diversity in art education, I was nominated as one of Emerging Scholars by Diverse Issues in Higher Education in 2018.