Kimberly Martinez Phillips
Kimberly Martinez Phillips is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Sociology Department at Memorial University. She completed her Masters degree in Sociology at the California State University, Dominquez Hills, where she specialized in marriage interpersonal relationships. Her thesis was a quantitative study that analyzed 300 questionnaires on participants perceptions of relationships marriage. She is currently conducting interviews for her dissertation research on single, nevermarried, voluntarily childfree, women of color. Her analysis utilizes the perspectives of Standpoint Theory Decolonial Feminism through an intersectional lens. She has taught Sociology courses at universities in California Canada for over 24 years, ranging from Race Ethnicity, Feminist Theory, Criminology, Introduction to Policing, Social Problems, and Marriage Family.Ms. Phillips has also worked outside of academia, as a Jury Consultant, Local Evaluator, Safety Educator, and Health Educator working in extremely diverse communities. She has worked on statefunded projects teaching HIVAIDS Awareness to incarcerated youth in California Youth Authority facilities taught correctional officers how to recognize properly address individuals with developmental disabilities. She worked for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as a Safety Educator, where she developed training strategies for other educators, and taught children ages K12 on how to protect themselves from sexual predators.
