Briana Hinga

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About Briana Hinga

Briana Hinga is a Professor of Clinical Education in the Rossier School of Education, at the University of Southern California. Her work moves between scholarship, teaching, learning, and community organizing. She is passionate about educational justice, intersectional racial justice, environmental justice, and abolition. While still a work in progress, she strives for accountability to those most impacted by systemic inequities through this work. She received a Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Irvine. She organizes with The People’s Education Movement in Los Angeles, a collective of educators that recognizes miseducation as a vehicle of oppression and seeks to create sustainable spaces inside and beyond the classroom, to promote growth, healing, and transformation. She also organizes with Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) in Long Beach. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves White people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability to the Black Lives Matter, Long Beach chapter. Lastly, she organizes with Community Action Team – 911 (CAT 911) which is based on a framework of Transformative Justice. CAT 911 aims to create a world governed on principles of mutual respect, interrelatedness and reciprocity rather than violence, domination and disposability. She writes about a) the complex role of policy and research play in disrupting and/or perpetuating educational inequity and b) spaces of hope, healing, and transformation in education. She is a student of healing justice, yoga, and practices that support remembering interconnectedness. She also plays professional beach volleyball and coaches high school volleyball.