Selena Bobadilla-Jaramillo
Biography
Selena Bobadilla-Jaramillo (she/her/ella) is a PhD student in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education and working toward a Chicano/Latino Studies graduate certificate at Michigan State University. Guided by her lived experience as a biracial Xicana navigating nepantla—the in-between—her research is rooted in Xicane-Indigenous epistemologies and envisions teaching and learning as pathways to healing, where students and teachers reconnect with their histories and the histories of their neighbors to transform personal and collective wounds. Her research interests are in supporting preservice teachers, healing-centered, rehumanizing and decolonial pedagogies, and community-based Ethnic Studies programs. She holds a B.S. in Elementary Education/ESL and Social Welfare and an M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction and Secondary Education/ESL from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Before pursuing her PhD, she taught Ethnic Studies, Reading Intervention, and English Language Development classes in K-12 Wisconsin and California public schools. She also created nepantla healing space, a community project offering accessible yoga and wellness practices for students and educators.