2023-2024 Barbra Streisand Fellowship Recipients
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023-2024 Barbra Streisand Fellows!
The 2023-2024 Barbra Streisand Fellows examine the concept of Truth and the Public Sphere.
Magally ‘Maga’ Miranda Alcázar
Magally ‘Maga’ Miranda Alcázar (she/her) is a writer, researcher, educator and organizer based in Los Angeles. She is a PhD candidate in Chicana/o and Central American Studies at UCLA. Her work lies at the intersection of race, gender, labor, immigration and technology studies. Her research has been supported by the the Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, the NASEM Ford Predoctoral Fellowship, and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.
Maga was born and raised in Boyle Heights to immigrant parents from Michoacán and CDMX. She attended Pasadena City College and earned a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz with a double major in Feminist Studies (law, policy and social change emphasis) and Community Studies (economic justice emphasis) where she graduated magna cum laude in 2015.
Maga has written for Aztlán, The Nation, Verso, and New Left Review and the International Journal of Communication.
Nashra Mahmood
Nashra Mahmood is a 4th year doctoral student whose current research interests lie in theories of Affect, feminist critiques of ethno-nationalism, and critical media studies. Their previous research focused on feminized labor and unionization in North India’s informal economy. Their dissertation project is studying how media manipulation and communalist [dis]information in Indian media post-October 2019 has reconstituted national belonging. Nashra holds a BA in Economics and Gender Studies and a MA in Gender Studies.
Zizi Li
Zizi Li is an educator and researcher of media studies and digital cultures, with a special attention to (im)material labor and infrastructure via the study of influencer media. She inquires the relationships between media and extraction concerning the layered extraction of natural / human resources and racialized / gendered labor required by the operation of digital economy. Currently Zizi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her dissertation on influencer ecosystem uses fashion/lifestyle influencers and related vernacular social media genre / content (such as closet declutter and unboxing videos) to elucidate the connections between digital/media industries and commodity chains/networks. Zizi is trained in film studies, cultural studies, critical digital studies, feminist media studies / praxis, and transnational media. Her research and pedagogy are committed to the unpacking of entangled colonialisms as well as the building of transnational solidarity praxis and abolitionist decolonial care.
