Dara N. Nix-Stevenson

Dara N. Nix-StevensonDara Nix-Stevenson (she/her/they/them) is a social justice educator currently working as a Curriculum Specialist with Sincecombahee Educational Consulting. A former middle and high school science educator with twenty plus years of classroom experience, she views classrooms as transformative collaboratories where both the teacher and student can share in the learning process as co-creators of knowledge. She strives to incorporate learning as expressed by bell hooks, “But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all of its limitations, remains a location of possibility.” She hopes that when her students leave the classroom they are able to develop a critical consciousness that allows them to read the world, feel humanized, and become agents of social change. Dr. Nix received her Ph.D. in Educational Studies from UNC-Greensboro with a concentration in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Primarily interested in racial, gender, and environmental justice, her research focuses on environmental displacement, identity, resilience, and planetary citizenship. She blogs as Sincecombahee.

Publications

PK-12 Professionals’ Narratives of Working as Advocates Impacting Today’s Schools
PK-12 Professionals’ Narratives of Working as Advocates Impacting Today’s Schools
Patrick S. De Walt, Dara N. Nix-Stevenson. © 2024. 220 pages.
The PK-12 education system in the United States suffers from anti-democratic and authoritarian ideologies, policies, and power structures, leading to limited educational access...
Being Nepantleras While Resisting “Everything, Every Where, All at Once”
Being Nepantleras While Resisting “Everything, Every Where, All at Once”
Dara N. Nix-Stevenson. © 2024. 21 pages.
As the idea of trauma-informed education has moved to the center of many conversations in PK-12 education, it demands that PK-12 professionals seek to act as Nepantleras in...