Brianna Wright is a doctoral candidate in the Higher Education and Organizational Change program at UCLA. Her current research centers on how students of color use assets such as funds of knowledge to persist in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Wright earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Education from Brigham Young University and a Masters of Arts in higher education and organizational change from UCLA. Wright currently leads a research and evaluation team that investigates students’ experiences in community college calculus. Additionally, Wright has designed math and data science curriculum for UCLA students and serves as the Project Manager for Latinas in STEM with Latina Futures 2050 Lab (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center).
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