I'm Dr. Kimya Loder, community advocate, teacher, researcher, writer, and design-thinker. I graduated from the historic Spelman College with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and International Studies and went on to receive my M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University. I'm currently an Assistant Professor in the School of History and Sociology at Georgia Tech. Broadly speaking, my research highlights how groups navigating race, class, and gender-based inequality engage in individual and collective political actions to resist marginalization. My current book project Refusing Erasure: Crisis, Resistance, and the Self-Preservation Politics of Black Transgender Women is a study in what remains politically possible when the systems meant to protect marginalized communities never show up. 

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Outside of academia, I'm an avid traveler, MCU fanatic, and seasonal gardener. I also hold the titles of big sister, daughter, girl-scout troop leader, and summer camp counselor. I feel most at home wherever I'm in community with the people I love.