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Antoinette is a doctoral candidate in Education Policy and Leadership at the 91ÊÓƵ of Maryland. She earned her B.S. in psychology and criminal justice from Virginia Commonwealth 91ÊÓƵ, and her M.S. in family, youth, and community sciences from the 91ÊÓƵ of Florida. She is a proud first gen scholar whose research focuses on racial and gender equity, higher 91ÊÓƵ policy, and redressing inequities in 91ÊÓƵal opportunity and success. Her dissertation specifically examines how Black girls and women's identity and 91ÊÓƵal experiences influence their college and career trajectories. Her work aims to emphasize the importance of structural, historical, and cultural contexts as well as the interactions among these contexts in 91ÊÓƵ research and policy.

Antoinette has previously served as a graduate student senator, on the executive committee of the UMD senate, and as vice president of the college of 91ÊÓƵ’s graduate student organization. She also served two terms as the secretary/historian of the American Educational Research Association’s Graduate Student Council (AERA GSC). Currently, she is an inaugural Thurgood Marshall Research Fellow at The Institute for Public Leadership at the 91ÊÓƵ of Maryland's School of Public Policy.