Breana Bahar Hansen, Ed.D.
Equality Works Founding Board Member & Secretary
Dr. Breana Bahar Hansen, Ed.D., (they/them) identifies as a white anti-racist queer nonbinary transgender-inclusive feminist activist, dyslexic educator, and life-long learner. Breana is a tenured professor in Queer and Interdisciplinary Studies at City College of San Francisco. They are one of the co-founders of Equality Works, alongside April Harlo (she/her) and the late Asma Eschen (she/her). Breana co-created the first Queer Studies course, Queering Human Rights Education, in their doctoral program International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco. Their dissertation, “What’s Race Got To Do With It?”: Lived Experiences of Students in Queer Studies Navigating Questions of Identity and Activism at City College of the Bay, identified how curricula in Queer Studies both reflect and ignore the lived experiences of Queer Trans Black Indigenous People of Color by engaging students as co-researchers in Virtual Participatory Action Research.