Miguel N. Abad
( He/Him/His )Miguel is a youth worker with over a decade of experience collaborating with community-based and non-profit organizations in the Bay Area in numerous fields such as college access, career development, arts education and social movement organizing. As a youth studies researcher, his scholarly work touches upon race and social justice, out of school time education, youth development, youth activism, and participatory action research.
Educational Background:
PhD, Education, UC Irvine
Selected Publications:
Journal Articles
Abad, M.N. and Renick, J. (2025). On solidarity and methodological innocence in youth participatory action research. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. 31(1), 165-182. https://doi.org/10.3998/mjcsl.5724
Abad, M. N. (2023). ‘Stop the monster, build the marvel’: movement vulnerability, youth organizing and abolitionist praxis in late liberal San Francisco. Journal of Youth Studies, 27(5), 741–757. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2023.2174004
Renick, J., Abad, M.N., Van Es, E., & Mendoza, E. (2021). “It’s all connected”: Critical bifocality and the liminal practice of youth work. Child and Youth Services.https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1901571
Abad, M.N. (2021). “I’m picking a side” Thick solidarity, antiblackness and the grammar of the model minority. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 23(3), 303-318.https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2021.1890558
Abad, M.N. (2020). “Are we not what we seem?”: Infrapolitical maneuvers in the era of college and career readiness. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 51(3), 322-340. https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12341
Edited Books
Abad, M. N. and Conchas, G. Q. (Eds.). (2025). Youth resistance for educational Justice: Pedagogical dreaming from the classroom to the streets. Routledge.
Abad, M. N., & Conchas, G. Q. (Eds.). (2024). Repertories of racial resistance: Pedagogical dreaming in transborder educational spaces. Myers Educational Press. Recipient of the 2025 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award.