CAAAS Dissertation Completion Fellows

2025-2026 CAAAS Dissertation Completion Fellow

Alexis (Lex) Hunter

PhD Student, Educational Foundations, Policy & Practice, School of Education2025-2026 CAAAS Dissertation Completion Fellow
CAAAS Doctoral Fellows

Alexis (Lex) Hunter is a doctoral candidate with a dual focus in Educational Foundations, Policy, & Practice and Learning Sciences & Human Development at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research explores how Black/African, Latine, and Indigenous youth are conceptualizing healing in relation to social transformation. Lex’s dissertation centers youth-led, community-based participatory research (CBPR) that draws on Black/African extra-colonial traditions, including pre-colonial and anti-colonia...

2023-2024 CAAAS Dissertation Completion Fellow

Blessed Ngoe

PhD, Department of Communication, College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI)2023-2024 CAAAS Dissertation Completion Fellow
CAAAS Doctoral Fellows
Blessed.Ngoe@colorado.edu

Blessed E. Ngoe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests include language and social interaction in invisible political and social organizations, organizational collaboration, and African epistemologies. During his time at С»ÆÊé Boulder, Blessed has been researching communication strategies that communities in conflict areas use to mobilize resources to address urgent conflict-generated needs. Part of his research commitment has be...