Biography
Miguel is a youth worker with over a decade of experience collaborating with community-based and non-profit organizations in the Bay Area in numerous fields such as college access, career development, arts education and social movement organizing. As a youth studies researcher, his scholarly work touches upon race and social justice, out of school time education, youth development, youth activism, and participatory action research.
Educational Background
PhD, Education, UC Irvine
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Abad, M.N. and Renick, J. (2025). On solidarity and methodological innocence in youth participatory action research. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. 31(1), 165-182. https://doi.org/10.3998/mjcsl.5724
Abad, M. N. (2023). ‘Stop the monster, build the marvel’: movement vulnerability, youth organizing and abolitionist praxis in late liberal San Francisco. Journal of Youth Studies, 27(5), 741–757. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2023.2174004
Renick, J., Abad, M.N., Van Es, E., & Mendoza, E. (2021). “It’s all connected”: Critical bifocality and the liminal practice of youth work. Child and Youth Services.https://doi.org/10.1080/0145935X.2021.1901571
Abad, M.N. (2021). “I’m picking a side” Thick solidarity, antiblackness and the grammar of the model minority. Race, Ethnicity and Education, 23(3), 303-318.https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2021.1890558
Abad, M.N. (2020). “Are we not what we seem?”: Infrapolitical maneuvers in the era of college and career readiness. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 51(3), 322-340. https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12341
Edited Books
Abad, M. N. and Conchas, G. Q. (Eds.). (2025). Youth resistance for educational Justice: Pedagogical dreaming from the classroom to the streets. Routledge.
Abad, M. N., & Conchas, G. Q. (Eds.). (2024). Repertories of racial resistance: Pedagogical dreaming in transborder educational spaces. Myers Educational Press. Recipient of the 2025 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award.