Lerie Gabriel

Bio

Lerie Gabriel is an educator dedicated to creating inclusive and empowering learning environments. In her classroom, she forges inquiry into the creative and critical through practices grounded in community accountability. This approach serves to honor students' differences and empower them to use writing as a tool for making informed, context-sensitive decisions rather than simply conforming to imposed norms. Lerie’s scholarly interests focus on the intersections of Black Feminist rhetorics, professional and technical communication, and Critical Race studies, theory, and pedagogies. Broadly, her research examines the underpinnings of neoliberalism that inform the treatment of marginalized bodies in the classroom and act as the exigence for anti-racist, anti-ableist intervention. Her most recent article, “(Re)Situating Professionalism: Using Course Documents as Tools in the Professional Writing Classroom,” appears in Technical Communication Quarterly. Co-authored, the article offers concrete anti-racist pedagogical interventions that instructors can implement, regardless of whether their institutions actively support anti-racist policies.