Professor, English Department
College of the Sequoias
Jamie Moore (MFA, PhD) After receiving her MFA in Creative Writing and a certificate in Pedagogy, from Antioch University, Los Angeles, she developed a series of lectures about social justice consciousness for writing teachers. She has taught English composition, African American literature, Women in literature, and Critical Thinking, among other courses. Moore has given presentations at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity, Strengthening Student Success Conference, The PUENTE Project regional and statewide trainings, and UC Riverside’s LGBT + CCC Conference. She is a contributor to the book-in-progress Puente’s Promising Practices. A fiction writer, she has also published a novella and is at work on a novel. Her research interests include pedagogy, language diversity, code-meshing, neo-passing and multicultural literature. Her dissertation project utilized institutional ethnography and autotheory to understand the constraints Black female faculty must navigate in the community college system and called for "visionary daughtering" as a restorative path forward.