Dré Carter
Dré is a longtime student with shifting interests and affiliations. He prefers to work in mixed media environments where the ephemeral intersects with the tangible. His current work is bent by the gravity of structural death.
Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton
Eghosa is a first generation Nigerian American originally from Sacramento. She is co-founder of Making Us Matter (M.U.M.), a Black woman-owned nonprofit educational organization. She is currently pursuing an Education doctorate with a concentration in Racial Justice at the University of San Francisco through the International & Multicultural Education department. She is the co-author of Making Us Matter & the Work of Spirit Revival and Black Teachers Are Essential: A Comparative Study In Black Student Experience. With over 16 years of experience her writing, teaching, and research meet at the intersections. Her sites of inquiry are centered on anti-Blackness in education, Critical Pedagogy, BlackCRT, Black hair identity, and Black feminist thought. She seeks collective liberation and visibility for those who have been left in the margins.
simple ant
Wassup y’all! My name is simple ant and I am passionate about seeking to understand (and make sense of) what happened to human life. I’m especially moved by the places where race, gender, class and nature intersect.
If you wanna know more, meet me at: https://simplewxnders.life
Special Guest Producers
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Dr. Jamila J. Lyiscott
Jamila Lyiscott aka, Dr. J, is an award-winning community-engaged scholar, nationally renowned speaker, and the author of Black Appetite. White Food: Issues of Race, Voice, and Justice Within and Beyond the Classroom. She currently serves as a Tenured Professor of Social Justice Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is the founding co-director of the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research, and previously led the journal of Equity & Excellence in Education as an Editor-in-Chief. Dr. J’s research and activism work together to explore, assert, and defend the value of Black life globally. Her research examines the liberatory capacity of language and culture in the lives of youth of color, racial healing, youth-led activism, and the power of the African Diaspora to transgress coloniality.
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Dr. Tiffani Marie
Tiffani Marie is the daughter of Sheryll Marie, the granddaughter of Dorothy and Annette Williams, and the great-granddaughter of Artelia Green and Olivia Williams. She is an end-of-life practitioner, and a recovering academic. Coming from a long line of Arkansas educators, she is passionate about learning with and from youth, building with beloved communities, sewing, music production, and connecting with the natural world. Tiffani Marie also serves as the co-director of the Institute for Regenerative Futures and is a Professor of Teacher Education and Ethnic Studies at San Jose State University. Her research focuses on health disparities, anti-blackness as a social determinant of health, sacred relationship with death, and the dead body as a site of critical knowledge. Her broader research integrates theoretical frameworks and methods from public health, critical race studies, palliative care and education.
Dr. Kenjus Watson
Kenjus Watson is a father, partner, brother, uncle, and son who strives to honor ancestral ways of knowing, practice presences, and bridge more sustainable and loving relationships, projects, and educational futures. Kenjus works toward this calling in part through his role as Assistant Professor of Urban Education in the School of Education at American University. Kenjus also contributes time as an Earthen-based builder specializing in Super Adobe home construction as an instructor with the Cal-Earth Institute. Watson also collaborates alongside mutual and community responsive projects as research lead, educator, and co-founder of the Institute for Regenerative Futures in the College of Education at San Jose State University.
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Dr. David Stovall
In the attempt to bring theory to action, he works with community organizations and schools to address issues of equity, justice and abolishing the school/prison nexus. His work led him to become a member of the design team for the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice (SOJO), which opened in the Fall of 2005. Furthering his work with communities, students, and teachers, his work manifests itself in his involvement with the Peoples Education Movement, a collection of classroom teachers, community members, students and university professors in Chicago, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area who engage in collaborative community projects centered in creating relevant curriculum. In addition to his duties and responsibilities as a professor at UIC, he also served as a volunteer social studies teacher at the Greater Lawndale/Little Village School for Social Justice from 2005-2018.
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Dr. Bettina Love
Dr. Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her writing, research, teaching, and educational advocacy work meet at the intersection of disrupting education reform and strengthening public education through abolitionist teaching, antiracism, Black joy, and educational reparations. You can preorder her new book Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal wherever books are sold.