Dr. Miriam Gonzales

Miriam Gonzales serves as the assistant director of the will program. She completed her Ph.D. in English at Penn State University in 2023, where her dissertation research explored possibilities for equity and social justice on campus at both her own and other institutions of higher education. Having worked in student organizing on and off since 2001, centering a personalized decolonial feminist praxis in this culminating project felt like a natural direction for her research, and she’s eager to work with will students in developing an intersectional feminist praxis that suits them and their intellectual, social, and political interests. At Penn State, Dr. Gonzales was instrumental in creating programming and support structures for graduate colleagues in the College of Liberal Arts and throughout the university, most recently conceiving and co-directing an initiative designed to help humanities graduates explore professional futures that don’t include tenure track jobs. Dr. Gonzales has also taught undergraduate courses in both English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, worked as a graduate assistant in the Office of the Dean for Diversity and Inclusion in Penn State’s Eberly College of Science, and advised incoming first year students through the university’s Division of Undergraduate Studies. Prior to arriving at Penn State, Dr. Gonzales was a peer instructor in the nationally recognized University Studies program at Portland State University.