Degrees

2014 Ph.D., Urban Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 

Dissertation Title: “Tough Love: The Public Pedagogy of Young Urban Women of Color

and Their Lessons on Race, Gender, and Sexuality”

2009 M.Ed., Urban Education, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 

2007   B.A. (cum laude), English with a concentration in Global Culture and Creative Writing

State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton 

Publications

E Morales-Williams, 2025 “A Letter to My Students, Young and Old.” In JOTA: A Queer Latina/Latinx Anthology, ed. Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz, Anel I. Flores, & Jackie T. CuevasFlowersong Press.

E Morales-Williams, 2023, Turn Up for Freedom: Notes for all the Tough Girls Awakening to Their Collective Power. Common Press (New York).

Sheena Sood and E ‘Mari’ Morales-Williams, 2021, “The City of Radical Love: A Philly Story of Oppression, Resistance, and Healing.” In Practicing Yoga As Resistance: Voices of Color in Search of Freedom, ed. Cara Hagan, Routledge (New York).

Teaching

University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy and Practice (present)

Course: Gender and Policy

The College of New Jersey, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (present)

Course: Bruja and Blackness: Transnational Feminist Perspectives of AfroLatinidad

Temple University, College of Education and Human Development

Course: Tweens & Teens; Freedom Dreaming: Teacher and Student Activism In Philadelphia and Beyond; Education for

Liberation; Education, Schooling, and the Individual in American Society