2023
PhD in Social Work – City, Culture, and Community, Tulane University
Dissertation: "Twisted Garden": Unearthing Youth Voice and Cultivating Change in the New Orleans Education Landscape
Committee: Drs. Samantha Francois, Mary Margaret Downey, Ebony Perro, Golan Moskowiz
Qualifying fields: Critical Race Theory in Education, Youth Participatory Action Research
2018
Bachelor of Arts in Social Science, Summa Cum Laude
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
Stevenson, R., Chaisson, R., Blakey, B., Lewis, M. The Black Women’s Tax. (2023). Chapter in Social Work Social Work, WhiteSupremacy, and Racial Justice: Reckoning with Our History, Interrogating our Present, Re-Imagining our Future).
Francois, S., Blakey, B. Stevenson, R., Davis, C. (2023). Navigating COVID-19 and Racial Trauma as a Black Student at Predominantly White Institutions. American Journal of Community Psychology.
Stevenson, R., Blakey, J. (2021). Social Work in the Shadow of Death: Divesting from Antiblackness and Social Control. Advances in Social Work.
Knipp, H., Stevenson, R. (2021) “A Powerful Visual Statement”: Race, Class, and Gender in Uniform and Dress Code Policies in New Orleans Public Charter Schools. Affilia.
Stevenson, R. (2019) "I Don't Want to Be Ashamed, I Want to Learn About My History": Racial Isolation in Portland’s White Schools. PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal: Vol. 13: Iss. 1, Article3
2023
Newcomb-Tulane Institute – Discretionary Research Grant (Awarded $4,200)
2023
SLA Graduate Student Summer Research & Write-Up Award (Awarded $2,000)
2023
Taylor Center Grant for Social Innovation Changemaker Catalyst Award (Awarded $1,500)
2022
Mellon Fellowship forCommunity Engaged Research (Awarded $5,000)
2018
Undergraduate Student Commencement Speaker
Portland State University Multicultural Graduation
2018
Commission on the Status of Women Essay Award
Awarded by the Portland State University Diversity Action Council
2018
McNair Scholars Fellow
Awarded summer stipend for original qualitative research study
2018
Program Fellow
National Education for Women’s Leadership of Oregon
2012-2014
Boston Scientific Foundation Scholarship Award
Awarded by $2,000 per year for undergraduate tuition
Director and Facilitator, 2022, Youth Participatory Action Research Academy, Beloved Community
Instructor, 2021, Research and Cultural Connections – SOAR X Pre-College Program, Xavier University
Teaching Assistant, 2022, Organizational Behavior, Tulane University
Teaching Assistant, 2021, Critical Criminology, Tulane University
Teaching Assistant, 2019, Sociology of Gender, Portland State University
Invited Talk, 2023, “Re-imagining Educational Futures: Arts-Based Research as a Tool for Dismantling Anti-Blackness in New Orleans Schools”, Design Dialogues Series – Taylor Center for Design Thinking and Social Innovation
Guest Lecturer, 2023, “Why YPAR? Action, Civic Engagement and Transformation through Inquiry”, Service Learning Courser in Youth Participatory Action Research, Tulane University
Guest Lecturer, 2023, “Charter Schools and Inequality: (Re)Evaluating the New Orleans Educational Landscape”, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship Course, Tulane University
Guest Lecturer, 2019, “Racial Isolation and La Frontera: Feminist Research in the Borderlands.” Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies Course, Tulane University
Guest Lecturer, 2019, “‘I Don’t Want to be Ashamed, I Want to Know About My History’:Racial Isolation in Portland’s White Schools.” Critical Histories of Child, Youth, and Family Studies Course, Portland State University
Associate Director of Youth Participatory Action Research, Beloved Community
New Orleans - Jan 2022 – August 2022
Lead Teacher & Administrator, Kids Community Learning Center
Portland, Oregon - October 2013 – May 2019
Operations & Youth Engagement Coordinator, Art Creation Foundation for Children
Jacmel, Haiti / remote from Portland, Oregon - August 2013 – June 2015