EDUCATION
B.A | Sociology, Spanish Minor | University of Richmond
M. Ed | Social Foundations | University of Virginia
PhD | Education | Virginia Commonwealth University
BOOKS
Unveiling Your Writing Voice: A Workbook for Writers and Creatives
She Forgot Who She Was: Poetry for Women Lost & Found
Be a Man Tyrone: What Happens When Daddy Goes to Prison
Light-Skinned, Dark-Skinned or In-Between?
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
“A Crooked Seat at the Table: Black and Alone in an Honors Class” ( Green Eye Shade Award Winner)
“Black in the Writing Center: The Post-Racial Lie” (book chapter in Writing Centers at the Center of Change)
“Why Keisha Can’t Write: The Marginalization of Black Student Writing”
“Pandemic Pedagogy: A Call to Educators to Bring their
Classrooms to Reality“
SELECT PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Decolonizing Our Writing Voice (Workshop for Midnight & Indigo)
Students as Experts: Listening to and Learning from Black and Latino Male College Students (VCU Department of Focused Inquiry)
Can We Talk About Race? (VCU Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence)
First Year Experience & Students in Transition Conference
Proposal title: Creating Space: Focus Groups Addressing Racialized Undergraduate Opportunity Gaps (accepted)
University of Richmond Department of Sociology Graduation keynote speaker; Richmond, VA; (cancelled due to Covid)
You, Me and Equity. Speech given on
educational equity at Hanover County’s 2020 Girl Scouts Thinking Day. Virginia
Commonwealth University; Richmond, VA.
Colorism on Campus. Conference lecture given at the
4th Annual Virginia Commonwealth University Social Justice Student Conference;
Richmond, V.A.
SERVICES OFFERED
Speaking Engagements
Academic Workshops
Writing Workshops
Communication Strategy
Editing
Book Coaching
Academic Consulting
Spoken Word Performances
Poetry Commissions
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“An imperfect world is the perfect place to tell it like it is.”
– Kiara
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