RILE Speaker Series: Bianca Baldridge - Unpacking the Youthwork Paradox

Unpacking the Youthwork Paradox: Precarity, Possibility, and the Interiority of the Black youth Workers' Lives

We're thrilled to kick off this new season with an incredibly dynamic group of scholars who are eager to delve into discussions on topics at the heart of our mission: race, inequality, and language in education.

Bianca Baldridge is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is a sociologist of education with expertise in race and community-based education. Baldridge’s research explores the sociopolitical context of community-based youth work and examines the confluence of race, class, and gender and their impact on community-based spaces.

She is the author of Reclaiming Community: Race and the Uncertain Future of Youth Work (Stanford University Press, 2019) and leads the Critical Youthwork Collective, an engaged research lab committed to humanizing research, critical youth work pedagogies, and honoring youth work professionals.