After talks about my book, I’m often asked about my thinking around quilting as a theming process. I expand on it in this new book! My chapter (#13) is called Quilt Tactics: Black Quilting as Method in Qualitative Research ❤️❤️ #QualitativeMethods #Storywork #Literacies

#FFL #NYU 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

Excited to join a supportive community of colleagues and leading scholars at the UW–Madison School of Education, as an Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration in UW-Madison ELPA Department! #Tenured. #ScholarGrind #OnWisconsin #ELPAHigherEd #ThisIsELPA UW–Madison

#ICYMI We teamed up with Black Student-Athlete Summit to put on the Prolific Impact Lab for professionals at the summit.

Me to other academics: I’m an ASSISTANT professor Me to everyone else: I’m a professor Tired having to explain

John B. Diamond John Diamond Brown University receives the 2024 Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award during #ASA2024.

Yall… This is the department of African American and African Studies at Michigan State University faculty/staff. Why would they eat academia up like this?! 🔥

Amazing!!🫶🏾

This is for me and anyone else who needs this: Hard times won’t last always Hard times won’t last always Hard times won’t last always Peace and Joy are on the horizon Peace and Joy are on the horizon Peace and Joy are on the horizon

Was absolutely brilliant watching my PhD co-advisor Dr. Dr. LaShawn Faith Washington sharing words of wisdom at the GradCon Faculty Insights Panel 2024 presented by OU Graduate College 🫡🙌💯 University of Oklahoma College of Education #GradCon24 #LeadOn #inspirational

James Earl Jones, the prolific film, TV and theater actor whose resonant, unmistakable baritone was most widely known as the voice of “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader, died Monday. He was 93. bit.ly/3TkCdw4

This is for me and for whoever else needs it today: Academia won’t break my soul The academy won’t break my soul Academe won’t break my soul The Ivory Tower won’t break my soul

Debate 2024 let’s go!!!!

With the faculty job market back in full-swing, it feels like a good time to reshare Dr. LaShawn Faith Washington and my piece in the The Chronicle of Higher Education about navigating friendships on the job market. Learn from us, and make a plan to care for one another #faculty #phd chronicle.com/article/how-to…

Say hello to our brilliant UW-Madison ELPA Higher Education Faculty! Front (L2R): Drs. Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Weijia Li, Aireale J. Rodgers, Jing Yu. Back (L2R): Drs.Elton Crim Jr., Krystal L. Williams, Frank Fernandez, Brian A. Burt! Not pictured: Dr. Xueli Wang (sabbatical). #ThisIsELPA 🦡

Big things popping! Biggest Congrats!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Now that it’s officially open access, I’m excited to share a recent publication in Educational Studies in which I explore the life-affirming practices and third spaces that youth created to resist processes of dehumanization while incarcerated. Check out the entire special issue