Kaché Claytor

Kaché H. Claytor is a PhD Candidate (ABD) in Hispanic Studies with a certificate in American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Claytor is a co-founder and the current president of Black Graduate Student Association and also works closely with undergraduate students as the Mellon Mayes graduate mentor. Additionally, she is a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow and serves as a committee member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for the Romance Languages and Literatures department. As a 2017-2018 Fulbright Colombia grantee, she taught at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá and mentored for the Martin Luther King Scholars Program—an initiative geared to increase bilingualism within the Black and Indigenous communities throughout Colombia. Her research centers Black women, land rights, displacement, activism, and environmental studies in Peru and Colombia.