Naeisha McClain (she/they) is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Urban Education program and a K. LeRoy Irvis Fellow. She was born in Columbus, GA and received her B.A. from Oberlin College. Upon completion of undergrad, they moved to Pittsburgh where they completed the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs. Their research interest, while evolving, centers on Tongan epistemologies, coloniality within the Pacific, and church-based schooling spaces. She imagines her work as a personal journey and act of remembering of Tongan traditions while also paying homage to the Pasifika people that came before.
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