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Alé (she/her) is an Oregonian who was raised on a ranch in rural Southern Oregon. Alé is an experienced researcher and educator with approximately 10 years in higher education. In her own research, Alé writes about the historically contingent formation of childhood from the 17-20th centuries with a focus on the racially gendered hierarchies of meaning in the constitution of Western childhood. She has experience teaching courses ranging from race and ethnicity to ethnographic methods to financial structures of education in the U.S. She also writes about the intellectual genealogy of early queer and trans studies, and the role of early philanthropic organizations in shaping contemporary social services for transgender people in the U. S.

Prior to graduate school, Alé was a researcher at the Community College Research at Teachers College, Columbia University. In this role, she was a co-author on 4 research briefs and reports on supporting adjunct faculty, high school to college transition courses, and statewide developmental math reform.

Alé holds a B.A. in Politics from Willamette University, a Ed.M. in Higher Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education. When not reading, Alé enjoys spending time outdoors and can be found at the closest outdoor basketball court.