Briana Nichols is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education and the Department of Anthropology.  Her work has been generously funded by a National Academy of Education/NAEd Spencer Foundation Fellowship.  Briana's research focuses broadly on how living in the wake of transnational migration informs new political, economic and social formations.  She has written on immigration, development, coloniality and community change in both Guatemalan and U.S. contexts, examining how human (im)mobility articulates with educational systems as well as gendered and racial epistemologies.