PhD Candidate and Paul Lazarsfeld Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University
Dominic is a PhD candidate and Paul Lazarsfeld Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. He is also a Columbia University Provost Diversity Fellow and a New York City Reducing Inequality Network Fellow. Dominic holds an MA in Sociology and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BA in Sociology from Loyola University Maryland.
Dominic’s research examines questions at the nexus of identity, racial capitalism, and the cultural politics of education. His dissertation investigates the experience of youth involved with transitional school programs: non-profit organizations that recruit poor and working-class youth of color and prepare them to transition from mostly public schools in urban communities to elite, private schools. Dominic is specifically investigating how both the students and the non-profit organization make sense of moving Black and brown youth across boundaries of race, class, and space for upward social mobility.