Moriah Flagler

Moriah Flagler is a teacher, theatre maker, and scholar. Her research focuses on community-based devising, applied improvisation, and digital storytelling. Her recent scholarship examines how devising digital stories with middle school aged Spanish speakers foregrounded their community cultural wealth in a schooling system that often strips Latinx youth of their languages and cultures through subtractive assimilation. Flagler received the 2019 Distinguished Thesis Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education for her study, "Storied Moments: Foregrounding Community Cultural Wealth through Digital Storytelling.