Gabriel Pulido

Gabriel Pulido was born and raised in Sacramento, California, and first became involved with creative writing in the youth poetry slam scene. While at UC Santa Cruz Gabriel utilized classroom lessons to fuel his creative writing endeavors. Currently, he is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in Higher Education (with a double minor in African American and Diaspora Studies & Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) at Pennsylvania State University. Gabriel considers himself to be a transdisciplinary scholar whose work often travels across multiple fields. Ultimately, Gabriel seeks to perform the work while honoring the rich histories and legacies that scholar-activists have fought for. Presently, Gabriel has three lines of research commitments: 1. Artistic Performance and Retention in Higher Education 2. Mentorship, Relationality, and Belonging and 3. Arts-based methodologies and activism in social science research. Gabriel’s academic and creative writing often intersect and find a home at the center of healing. Gabriel considers himself a conjurer of joy, love, and resilience, as he uses both creative and academic writing to work toward collective liberation. When not writing, Gabriel can be found near a body of water dreaming of becoming just as free.

Blog

Ph.D., Higher Education | The Pennsylvania State University (Spring 2024)

M.A., Higher Education Student Affairs and Leadership | University of Northern Colorado 

B.A., Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, and Latin American & Latino Studies | University of California, Santa Cruz

ASHE: Black Refusal as Pedagogy in Higher Education. - November 2023

Queer Theory for Queer HIED student leaders with a focus on Intersectionality held at the Pennsylvania State University. - October 2023

Working the Dissertation: Experiences of First Generation Students held at the Pennsylvania State University. - September 2023

HPC 5410 : Introduction to Student Affairs course held at Appalachian State University. - August 2023

ACPA: The Pen is Ours: Black Women's Poetry Then and Now - March 2023

ACPA: It's About Damn Time: Claiming the Violence We Produce - March 2023

ACPA: Queer and Trans Latinx/a/o Higher Education Collective Panel - March 2023

ACPA- Both Insiders and Outsiders: Perspectives from LGBTQ+ Scholars and Practitioners - March 2023

ACPA: Decloaking White Supremacy and Colonization in HESA Research and Scholarship - March 2023

ASHE: Understanding Experiences of Collegian Drag Artists by Invoking Eros Ideology and Erotic as Power - November 2022

Presentations

Orozco, R., Duran, A., Pulido, G. (2023). Creando Mundos y Futuros de Jotería: Ofrendas of Queertorship for and by Queer and Trans Latinx/a/o People

Pulido, G. (2023). First Night Home. Tendon Magazine. Special Issue on Injury.

Pulido, G. (2022). Switching up, positions. In J. Cisneros, T.J. Jourian, R. A. Miller, & A. Duran (Eds.), Queerness as doing in higher education: Narrating the insider/outsider paradox as LGBTQ+ scholars and practitioners. Routledge.

"Legally Blonde:" Trans Day of Visibility 2022  - Culture Strike

Wright-Mair, R., & Pulido, G. (2021). We deserve more than this: Spirit murdering and resurrection in the academy. Journal of Educational Foundations, 34(1), 110–131.

Ford, K. S., Rosinger, K. O., Choi, J., & Pulido, G. (2020). Toward Gender-Inclusive Postsecondary Data Collection. Educational Researcher, 50(2), 127–131. 

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