Dara Nix-Stevenson, Ph.D.

(she/they) is a social justice educator with over twenty years of middle and high school classroom experience. She strives to build classroom communities guided by the ethos of restorative justice and foster 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.” 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 currently works as an 8th Grade Science Educator and GSA (Genders & Sexualities Alliance) Advisor at Central Park School for Children in Durham, NC.