Adjunct Faculty, Youth Studies

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Areas of Expertise
- Program Evaluation
- Adolescent Education
- Critical Youth Studies
- Youth Activism
Dr. Elizabeth Bishop (@DrBishopDigital) is an award-winning educator, researcher, writer and youth advocate who has worked for more than two decades alongside communities in public schools, universities and non-profit organizations across the United States. Bishop currently leads the Impact Hub at Girls for Gender Equity. She has been on the faculty of Youth Studies at CUNY SPS since 2017 and is also on faculty of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. She is the 2024-2025 Scholar-in-Residence in the English Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Dr. Bishop’s writing includes her 2015 Becoming Activist: Critical Literacy and Youth Organizing, her 2018 Embodying Theory: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Resistance which she created in collaboration with artist Tamsen Wojtanowski and her 2023 Whiting Out: Writing on Vulnerability, Racism and Repair. Dr. Bishop has a new book titled Disrupting Data: Youth Activism and Anti-Surveillance Storytelling forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan. Bishop is a nationally recognized scholar focused on critical literacy, youth activism and data privacy. She has been featured on Good Morning America Digital, PBS NewsHour, Business Insider and PolitiFact. She is on the board of the International Surf Therapy Organization and is an advisory committee member for the Human Rights Watch Children’s Rights Division. Dr. Bishop is also co-founder of Global Turning Points, an international consulting collective based in Brooklyn, New York and Bogotá, Colombia.
Academic Programs
Graduate Program
Youth Studies
Advanced Certificate Program
Youth Studies