Biography
Micaiah Lugo is a PhD Student specializing in Sociocultural Anthropology. She received her BA in Psychology from California State University, Bakersfield (2018) and her MSc in Applied Social Psychology from Royal Holloway, University of London (2020). She currently serves as Senior Program Manager for the Center for Youth Equity at the Tulane Violence Prevention Institute, where she leads youth programs and violence prevention initiatives in New Orleans. Her work on the Enrichment to Empowerment (E2E) violence prevention program has been published in Prevention Science, with an additional manuscript currently in press.
Her work sits at the intersection of anthropology, Africana/Black studies, and education studies. She is interested in Blackness across the diaspora and how youth make meaning of it — specifically, how experiencing Blackness across different geographic, cultural, and historical contexts shapes young people's self-concept, community belonging, and critical consciousness.