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Marina Lambrinou, Ph.D.

(She/her/hers)Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Marina smiles in a green shirt and black blazer, wearing blue framed eyeglasses with Loyola's evergreen campus in the back.

Dr. Lambrinou is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the School of Education and the Center for Equity, Leadership, and Social Justice in Education (CELSJE) at Loyola University Maryland. A native of Cyprus, Marina situates her work at the intersections of migration policy and education and grounds her research in an interdisciplinary and critical approach to policy and education. Her research interests include immigrant youth and education, educational policy, student voice and activism, identity intersectionalities, minoritized youth in STEM, undocuactivism in the Nuevo South, interpretive and critical policy analysis, phenomenological research, LatCrit, ethnography and autoethnography centering the immigrant experience.

Marina received her doctorate in the Cultural Foundations of Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNC Greensboro) in May 2023. Her dissertation is entitled: “The United States, it’s supposed to be where dreams come true”: Rhizomatic Familias, Nested Policy Contexts and the Attendant Shaping of Undocumented and Mixed-Status Students’ Lived Experiences in North Carolina. Marina's work has been published in various esteemed journals, including Educational Policy, Equity in Education and Society, Frontiers in Education and Journal for Leadership, Equity, and Research.

She has also contributed chapters in books about Latinx youth and migration and has presented her work at multiple educational conferences (AESA, AERA, UCEA). She currently has two articles in publication, two articles under review, and three articles in progress.