Anani Vasquez

Ananí M. Vasquez, PhD (Arizona State University) is a former elementary teacher and teacher coach who combines her experiences in general, bilingual, gifted and special education(s) to envision an inclusive education. Ananí draws on creativity theory, disability studies in education, the neurodiversity paradigm, process philosophy and arts-based inquiry while working with others towards post-oppositional educational transformation. 

Anani's specialization is in Neurodiversity and Creativity in Education and Research Methods. She is working on a team with ASU's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, ASU's School of Art, Media and Engineering and the Neurodiversity Educational Research Center on Telematic Embodied Learning for autistic students/students with autism, an NSF funded project. She also has developed creative professional learning experiences based on 'micromoments' (surprising, unexpected instances in learning events) that encourage teachers to reflect on ableist structures, routines, and practices in schooling and to envision possibilities for shifting classroom interactions in their own contexts.

She is co-editor of Writing and the Articulation of Post-Qualitative Research (2023) by Routledge.