Corinna J. Moebius, Ph.D. – Resume
As an interdisciplinary educator, consultant and scholar-activist, I specialize in work that builds equity (and especially racial equity), reflexivity, understandings of power, and cultural competency. I have engaged in this work for most of my adult life.
Corinna, I want to say that you are really an incredible consultant. I love working on projects with you and the way you add your own creativity and intelligence to every little task.
Thank you for all your work for CTCNet and the many communities you touch. You’ve done such great work on this project.
Corinna is the architect of the famous “Quadrangle Strategy” that is the foundation on which ALL the rest of what we did for public involvement rests. I recall the first time Corinna sketched it out for us at HNTB’s office. It was like “Damn, that’s brilliant!” So on behalf of everybody on the project team and all the residents who will never know how they came to be informed, educated and engaged as well as they did, Corinna, “thank you for everything.”
Corinna Moebius is the embodiment of talent, passion, compassion, boundless generosity and above all action.
I have enjoyed working with her and have watched all of her community empowerment projects grow into networks of proactive communities and successful civic engagements.
Educational Background: Crossing Interdisciplinary Boundaries
Ph.D. in Global & Sociocultural Studies

My dissertation committee.
In 2019, I earned my Ph.D. in Global & Sociocultural Studies (concentration in Anthropology) from Florida International University (FIU) (2019), with Graduate Certificates in Afro-Latin American Studies and African & African Diaspora Studies.
The name of my dissertation is Commemorative Bodies: (Un)Making Racial Order and Cuban White Supremacy in Little Havana’s Heritage District.
During graduate school, I was a Teaching Assistant and received the university’s prestigious Dissertation Fellowship. I also served as a Graduate Fellow in the Smithsonian’s Latino Museum Studies Program in Washington, DC and a Goizueta Graduate Fellow with the University of Miami’s Cuban Heritage Collection.
M.A. in Speech Communication
I received an M.A. in Speech Communication from California State University, Northridge–specializing in organizational communication, critical theory and Cultural Studies.
My thesis, “Where We Are From, Where We Are Goin’ To: Placing and Black Students’ Discursive Construction of Community,” illuminated the stories of black students, including Afro-Latinx students, and their efforts to create a welcoming gathering space on campus. It highlighted the intersectional dynamics, tokenism and racial bias students faced, along with forms of systemic and structural racism, as well as the resilience of black placemaking. I earned the university’s Spirit of Educational Equity award.
B.D.I.C. in Communications & Anthropology
As an undergraduate, I designed an interdisciplinary, self-designed B.A. in “Communications and Anthropology,” with a Minor in Geography, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Bachelor’s Degree with Individual Concentration).
As an undergraduate, I worked part-time as a cartographer and researcher for the Historical Atlas of Massachusetts, gathering and analyzing data for the chapter on Race and Ethnicity.
Other Certifications
I am certified in Permaculture. I also received a Certificate in Visionary Leadership from the Center for Visionary Leadership in Washington, DC.