RAE STEVENSON

Rae Stevenson is a writer, scholar, youth worker, and incoming Assistant Professor in the Community, Youth, and Education Studies major at Clark University in Worcester, MA. Rae's scholarship focuses on creating spaces, projects, and programs where young people are empowered to tell their stories and envision radical futures for their communities. Her work is  rooted in bell hook’s framework of love as a radical act and a practice of freedom.

Rae holds a Ph.D. in Social Work from the interdisciplinary City, Culture, and Community program at Tulane University, Her research interests include participatory action research, arts-based methods, and collaborative storytelling. She has created and supported a number of youth-led research initiatives, including the 2021 New Orleans YPAR Academy and collaborations with the Center for Youth Equity at Tulane University. 

Rae's dissertation centered on a youth-led, arts-based research project, resulting in a graphic novel anthology that explored racialized experiences in the New Orleans school system. Her published works include “The Light through the Woods,” a children’s picture book about grief, and publications in indie comics anthologies.

When she's not engaging with youth to foster empowerment or delving into creative scholarship, you can find her making amateur art, reading graphic novels, and enjoying the company of her partner and their two hound dogs, Mazel and Blue.