Ongoing Project

  • Estelita’s Library: A social justice bookstore & library in Seattle’s Central District and Beacon Hill, has been at the forefront of addressing inequities associated with spatial knowledge and minoritized identity stories. In this role, I’ve been able to employ Black and Brown spatial knowledge and learning as a mechanism to influence city policy, transportation infrastructure and planning for Seattles upcoming Comprehensive and Transportation Plan through community-based research methods. I’ve also been integral in managing the Black Panther Party Newspaper Digital Archive, producing a mutual aid station and community garden space. We are also building housing for our community.

  • Conservation, Black Geographies & Ecologies: Juxtaposed together, human-wildlife interactions present moments to understand ongoing tensions and relations facing the humans and wildlife across the Chobe Enclave region of Botswana, sparking questions of placemaking, who benefits, who chooses where and what is considered a space worthy of preserving, and at what cost. It further showcases the tension of when spaces are produced who is in included, bringing up questions to understand how we teach through nature-culture relations, the role of more-than-human kin, and the ways we can attend to power and privilege to critically construct and teach these realities. 

  • Alternative Practice: Every day, there’s a new reminder that climate change and growing inequities are catastrophically changing how we live. The world desperately needs radical design solutions, and innovative alternative practices will be at the forefront. An alternative practice operates outside traditional modes, both in its structure and approach to design problems. It consciously stands at the periphery and strives to challenge the status quo.

  • Disability Studies & Spatiality: Please check out our mapping of disability history and culture in Chicago! Since 2024, I’ve been apart of building out a digital humanities, history and public pedagogy project titled Cripping the Map: A People’s History of Disability in Chicago. Our current approach is digitally archiving disabled stories and making this knowledge publicly available through rhetorical cartographical practices. We’re building a public, crowd sourced digital map by and for disabled/mad/crip Chicago to honor our culture and histories.

Writing

  • Germinaro, K. (2025). Reclaiming public space as educational space. Dialogues in Human Geography, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206251406733

  • Germinaro, K., & Logan,, A. (2025). Actualizing black spatial histories through a speculative youth archiving project. Occasional Paper Series, (53), 20-34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.58295/2375-3668.1543

  • Germinaro, K. (2025). Blackness, place and learning: Youth cultivating a sense of identity-in-place through spatial storylines. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 34(2), 91–139. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508406.2025.2462314

  • Germinaro, K. (2025). Our Spatial Orientation: Positionality, Relationality, and Learning Through the Body. Qualitative Inquiry, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004251319462

  • Jadallah, C. C., Barry, K. M., Germinaro, K., & Barry, N. (2025). Building the world anew: on critical hope in climate change education. Environmental Education Research, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2025.2498941

  • Germinaro, K. (2024). In Between the Lines: Black and Brown Adolescents Creating a Homeplace Across School Settings. Urban Education, 59(5), 1428-1454. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859221086519

  • Germinaro, K., & Nickson, D. (2024). Black Spatial Storylines: Connections of Black Space, Sound and Story as Pedagogy. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241279499

  • Washington, S. A., Mendoza Chui, K., Ramirez, J. I., & Germinaro, K. (2024). “It’s a Vibe”: Belonging, Healing, and Liberation in Community Spaces By Us and For Us. Equity & Excellence in Education, 57(3), 287–302. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2023.2262477

  • Germinaro, K. (2022). Healing through geography: A spatial-learning analysis and praxis. Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 11(3).

  • Germinaro, K., Dunn, E., Polk, K. D., de Vries, H. G., Daugherty, D., & Jones, J. (2022). Diversity in Outdoor Education: Discrepancies in SEL Across a School Overnight Program. Journal of Experiential Education, 45(3), 256-275. https://doi.org/10.1177/10538259211040185