Francisco

Medina

Francisco A. Medina, PhD, is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator working across education, human development, psychology, and science studies. His work explores how education, in the broadest sense and wherever it happens, shapes who we become and our relationship with ourselves, each other, and the world. It asks how education can help us face harmful professional and societal practices and open up other possibilities for what education, knowledge, and learning can be.

His current work centers reparative pedagogies and professional formation in higher education. He is interested in how educational responses can support students entering fields like psychology, health sciences, and criminal justice to confront the epistemic and ontological harms their disciplines have produced and perpetuate, and to practice more ethically and accountably with the communities they serve. He designs creative learning experiences, including speculative scenarios, photovoice, arts-based pedagogy, and participatory methods that invite students and communities to imagine other ways of learning, teaching, and practicing. What else can education be?

Before joining John Jay College, he taught psychology and liberal arts courses at LaGuardia Community College and worked as an educational consultant at Centro and in teaching and learning centers at CUNY. His experience includes curriculum development, pedagogical workshops, and assessment. Dr. Medina has received several fellowships and awards, including the Mellon Humanities Alliance Fellowship, the Carnegie Educational Technology Fellowship, and graduate student awards from the American Educational Research Association.