Background

Alizé Hill is a doctoral candidate at Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. She received her B.A. in Human Development from Cornell University in 2018 and her M.S.W. in Social Work from The University of Chicago in 2020.

Research

Alizé’s dissertation work centers on the schools experiences of mixed-race families. She examines to what extent White parent(s) of mixed-race children are able to leverage their White privilege on behalf of their children and the ways this may simultaneously disrupt and reinforce White supremacy. Her broader research interests include educational equity, abolitionist social work, multiracial families, and youth activism. Alizé is also a professional circus artist who combines circus and social work to engage in radical imagination by reconciling with past and current oppression and reimagining anti-oppressive ways of moving through the world.