EDUCATOR • AUTHOR • SPEAKER • HERSTORIAN
Alyssa Gray-Tyghter (she/her) is an educator, academic, writer, speaker, digital content creator, wife, and mama bear to 4 (yes, she’s just as exhausted as she sounds).
She is currently a guidance counsellor in a public middle school in Ontario. She holds a Master of Education in Critical Studies where her work focused on anti-Black racism and Indigenous epistemologies in Mi’kma’ki. She is currently completing her PhD in Social Justice Education at OISE – University of Toronto. Her dissertation explores how multiracial women engage in placemaking, identity, and belonging through archival photographs and counterstorytelling. She seeks to examine how familial archives function as a site from which to examine the multiplicity of identity and how familial archiving challenges the singularity of traditional archiving categories.
Her content creation is perspective shifting with a focus on education and diverse texts. She also engages in lifestyle conversations around plus-size style, mental health, and motherhood. She’s conversational, intellectual, relatable, and witty… and wrote all of this about herself in third person so you should probably follow along to make sure she’s not lying!
