Danielle Lucero

Dartmouth College

Danielle Lucero is a Ph.D. candidate in the Justice and Social Inquiry program in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She holds an Ed.M. from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education in Learning and Teaching and a B.A. in Anthropology and Ethnic Studies from Columbia University. Danielle is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Isleta, located in central New Mexico, as well as Chicana with connections to the northeastern New Mexican town of Santa Rosa. Danielle’s dissertation research seeks to investigate the relationships between tribal enrollment, Pueblo women’s experiences with reproductive and social labor, and exploring the connections between identity, belonging, place, and tribal membership. Her research utilizes critical Indigenous research methodologies, ethnography, and a reproductive justice framework. She is the current Charles Eastman Fellow at Dartmouth College.