Ileana Jiménez

Ileana Jiménez is a recognized leader in the feminism-in-schools movement and creator of the hashtags #HSfeminism and #K12feminism. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the English department at Stony Brook University in New York. Her research focuses on Black and Latina feminisms, feminist and queer pedagogies, and feminist digital activism in the high school English classroom. As an English teacher-activist, she taught women of color feminisms, queer and trans literature, and memoir writing at the high school level for over 25 years. She has also taught undergraduate courses on gender, sexuality, and schools at Barnard as well as graduate courses on feminist pedagogy at NYU and Teachers College, Columbia University. In 2011, she received a Fulbright to interview queer and trans high school students in Mexico City. She has chapters in Gender in an era of post-truth populism: Pedagogies, challenges and strategies (2022) and Youth sexualities: Public feelings and contemporary cultural politics (2018), amongst other publications. She received her B.A. in English literature at Smith College; an M.A. in English literature at Middlebury College; and a Ph.D. in English education from Teachers College, Columbia University.