Josephine (Josie) Ingram (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Language, Literacy, and Culture cluster at UC Berkeley's School of Education. Her research interests include LGBTQ+ inclusivity in education, creative writing pedagogy, queer literacy frameworks, digital learning spaces, and artificial intelligence in education. Her current project explores how informal learning spaces can support literacy development and identity formation for transgender and gender-expansive individuals.
Prior to Berkeley, Josie taught English, creative writing, and film in LAUSD, where she also advised her school's Genders and Sexualities Alliance. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University and earned her MA and teaching credential from UC Berkeley.
Outside of her academic pursuits, Josie is the founder of Trans/gressive Writers' Workshop (TWW), a poetry workshop for trans and gender-expansive poets in Los Angeles.
