Angela Carter, Ph.D (she/her)

Email: angela@dendros.com

Angela M. Carter, Ph.D. (she/her) is an independent scholar, educator, and community organizer. As a Ronald E. McNair scholar, Angela became a first-generation college graduate in 2009 when she earned her BA in English from Truman State University. Dr. Carter completed her Ph.D. in Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota in 2019. She has worked in various capacities over the last 20 years teaching, researching, and advocating around experiences of injustice and inequity in higher education. Currently, she is connecting with other disabled Minnesotans to form a grassroots community organization, AmplifyMN: A Disability Justice Collective.

At the University of Minnesota, Dr. Carter co-founded the Critical Disability Studies Collective, an academic organization advancing intersectional and critical inquiries around disability, ableism, and access. She supported the UMN community in numerous ways, including: as an Instructor; an Access Consultant with the Disability Resource Center; the Access & Inclusion Pedagogy Specialty with with Minnesota Transform (a Mellon funded grant initiative engaging anti-colonial and racial justice work through the public humanities); and as Associate Director for Racial and Social Justice Education in the the Office for Equity and Diversity. Angela’s academic interests include: social justice pedagogies, critical disability studies, trauma studies, queer/crip theory, and feminist epistemologies. In addition to a co-authored a chapter in the anthology Negotiating Disability: Disclosure and Higher Education, Dr. Carter’s work has appeared inLateral and Disability Studies Quarterly. Her most recent publication  “The Politics of Praxis: Or, What if I Never Make it to the Mountaintop?” appears in the open access anthology “Dear Higher Education: Stories from the Social Justice Mountain.” 

Outside her professional endeavors, Angela loves cuddling with her dog Cricket, watching HGTV, and playing Beyoncé songs on her bass guitar. Angela identifies as a white anti-racist, multiply-disabled, rural queer, feminist.