Biography / Positions / Education
Itza A. Carbajal is a U.S. settler born in New Orleans and raised in Texas currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Information Science at the University of Washington Information School focusing on children and their records. She began her career as teaching faculty at the University of Washington in the autumn of 2025 working with both graduate students in Library and Information Science and undergraduates in the Informatics program. Her philosophy as an educator centers on facilitating self-determination and emotional and cognitive development through teaching ancestral and contemporary self-documentation strategies, critical information skills, and by emphasizing the importance of storytelling in human history and society. Through a social-historical lens, Carbajal stresses the role of historic and contemporary records in shaping personal and collective memories through K-16 learning with a special focus on disaster education.
