Scholar • Researcher • Storyteller

Faith D. Northern

Doctoral Candidate, Sociology of Education | NYU Steinhardt

I study how Afro-Caribbean students describe, interpret, and navigate U.S. higher education at the intersections of Blackness, migration, identity, belonging, and institutional power. My work bridges research, storytelling, and public scholarship, centering Black diasporic students whose experiences are too often flattened, misrecognized, or unheard.

Through community-engaged and mixed-methods research, I examine how students make meaning of their educational journeys, build support, resist erasure, and imagine more caring institutions. Across my work, I am committed to translating evidence into action, connection, and more accountable forms of educational justice.