Katherine claybaugh

ABSTRACT & BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT
This essay explores the ways in which the relationship between the United States and Mexico has influenced the development of Mexican and Chicana Feminism. It focuses specifically on the North American Free Trade Agreement and its effects on Mexican women and immigration to the United States. After providing different approaches to contextualizing these effects, it closes by describing how countering the oppression of Mexican and Chicana women is possible through activism and empowerment.  
Katherine Claybaugh is an undergraduate student studying Political Science and Spanish at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is from the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Her academic interests include intersectional feminism, food justice, and LGBTQ+ issues. She is set to graduate in the spring of 2020 and hopes to pursue a career in human rights law.