Join us this Saturday for a final studio exhibition concluding The LINE Residency's third artist-in-residence, Chelsea Hernandez, and a panel discussion with Ashley Williams, Jennifer Dorsey, and Keisha Gillis.

Saturday, December 14, 3 – 4pm
The LINE Austin
111 E Cesar Chavez St
Austin, Texas 78701

Sparked by her own personal story of student loan debt, Chelsea Hernandez began the Untitled Student Loan Debt Project to break the stigma of student debt burdens. This multimedia project is a culmination of art installation, podcast, and documentary feature developed during her time at The LINE Residency over the past 6 weeks. Uniting borrowers around the struggle of debt, this first phase of the project is experimental and only a small portion of the larger project which will enter production in 2020.

* Panel 3 – 4pm, Open Studio 4 – 5pm.

Ashley Williams, Policy Analyst

Ashley joined the Center in 2018 and focuses on postsecondary education and immigration policy. She is dedicated to intersectional policy research and advocacy and previously researched the disparate impact of high-cost online lending on communities of color and women. Ashley holds a Master of Social Science from UCLA, a Bachelor of Business Administration in Business Honors and Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in African and African Diaspora Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

Jennifer Dorsey

Jennifer Dorsey has extensive experience with both K-12 and higher education. She worked for six years as a middle school English teacher in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Currently, she serves as Senior Research Analyst at the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin, leading the evaluation of the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways (DCMP) an initiative to modernize entry-level college mathematics programs. Dr. Dorsey specializes in qualitative research, program evaluation, and communicating research to a variety of audiences. Jennifer received her doctorate in the Culture, Community, and Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of education.

Keisha Gillis