Gabrielle Kubi

Faculty Advisor:  Matt Diemer

Gabrielle Kubi is a first-year doctoral student in the University of Michigan’s Combined Program in Education and Psychology. She graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Human Development, with minors in Education and Inequality Studies. Gaby participated in the Program for Research on Youth Development and Engagement, a community-engaged translational research program focused on cultivating positive youth development within New York State 4-H programs.

She is interested in the development of critical consciousness and racial identity within Black youth and other young adults of color; how critical consciousness and racial identity can serve as assets in the navigation of educational institutions; and how educational spaces can be better structured to support the development of these assets.