ClintiaÌýSimon

  • PhD Student, Department of Communication, College of Communication, Media, Design and Information (CMDI)
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Clintia Simon is a PhD student in Communication whose research focuses on identity negotiation among Caribbean individuals across diaspora and homeland contexts. Her work examines how language, race, nationality, and belonging are interactionally constructed in everyday communication. As a scholar grounded in both Caribbean and United States contexts, she brings a transnational, interpretative, and critical lens to questions of migration, identity, and intercultural interactions. She is committed to both academic and applied scholarship centering research with community engagement and inclusive institutional change. Fun Fact: Clintia is from the island of Trinidad and Tobago. Ìý