Black-Liberation.Tech
Black-Liberation.Tech: Academic & Career Coaching for the Digital Age Your academic and career journey shouldn't require leaving your culture at the door. Tailored for high-achieving Latinas, Afro-Latinas, Black women, and girls, the Black-Liberation.Tech podcast is your strategic guide to navigating school (Grades 6–PhD), career pivots, and the evolving tech landscape. Hosted by Dr. Renée Jordan—an ecosystem builder, educator, and instructional technologist—this podcast transforms complex tech concepts and institutional roadblocks into practical, everyday strategies. Whether you are a DIY learner advocating for yourself in elite spaces, an early-stage professional charting your career, or a mother guiding her daughter's future, this is your space. Tune in as we tackle: AI Literacy & Prompt Engineering: How to use AI as a personal thinking buddy to reduce cognitive load, rather than a shortcut. DIY Learning Strategies: How to navigate challenging classes, ask the hard questions, and survive the "messy middle" without burning out. Academic & Career Strategy: Securing scholarships, building portfolios, and identifying your non-negotiables early on. Grounded in the African philosophy of Ubuntu ("I am because we are"), this podcast is a tool for collective liberation. Stop merely consuming technology and start creating your future. Listen in to build your skills, and join an ecosystem committed to your success. Explore the Black-Liberation.Tech Ecosystem: Access the Free Open Educational Resource (OER): Black-Liberation.Tech Join the Patreon Community for Exclusive Coaching: patreon.com/BlackLiberationTech Partner with Jordan Nuance LLC for Your Organization: jordan-nuance.com
Episodes
What happens when we move beyond asking AI to explain something and begin creating and testing our own connections?
In this episode of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan introduces the revised Module 2, Help Me Learn Through My Interests, which now emphasizes analogies instead of metaphors.
We explore how learners can connect new academic concepts to their interests and prior knowledge, map relationships between ideas, identif...
AI for Academic Success: Create, Question & Explain with Confidence
How do you know whether you truly understand something you've learned?
In Part 4 of the AI for Academic Success Module 2 walkthrough, Dr. Renée Jordan explores the Scholar Reflection, Learning Connection, and Try It Like Dr. Ellen Ochoa activity.
Using the original metaphor-centered workbook, we examine how students can connect academic concepts to their interests...
AI for Academic Success: Exploring Excellence, Creativity & Problem-Solving
What can we learn from how accomplished women think—not just what they accomplished?
In Part 3 of the Module 2 walkthrough of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan explores Janiyah GPT's response to an Excellence Exploration featuring Dr. Ellen Ochoa, Katherine Johnson, Dr. Adriana Ocampo, Dr. Antonia Novello, Dr. Ainissa Ramirez, and Dr. Helen ...
AI for Academic Success
Can a gaming metaphor make the chemistry of photosynthesis easier to understand—without simplifying away the science?
In this episode of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan tests the Module 2 prompt with Janiyah GPT. Starting with a biology learner who understands the big idea of photosynthesis but struggles with the chemistry inside the chloroplast, the prompt asks AI to connect the concept to gam...
AI for Academic Success
What if something you already know could help you understand something completely new?
In this episode of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan begins the Module 2 walkthrough with Amara, a creative learner struggling to understand atoms until she connects the science to something familiar: painting.
From there, we explore how learners can use their interests, experiences, and prior knowledge as resources f...
AI Can Help You Read—But It Can't Do the Thinking for You
What happens after AI explains a difficult reading?
In this episode of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan completes the Module 1 walkthrough by exploring Janiyah GPT's response to Ashley's Excellence Exploration, featuring Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women whose reading, research, curiosity, scholarship, and lifelong learning contributed to discovery, leaders...
What can the lives and work of accomplished women teach us about becoming stronger learners?
In Part 5 of the AI for Academic Success Module 1 walkthrough, Dr. Renée Jordan continues the conversation with Jasmine and Janiyah GPT through an Excellence Exploration.
This time, AI is prompted to identify Latinas, Afro-Latinas, and Black women whose reading, research, scholarship, scientific inquiry, writing, and lifelong learning contrib...
AI for Academic Success
What happens when the challenge isn't finding information—but figuring out what matters?
In this episode of AI for Academic Success, Dr. Renée Jordan continues testing the Module 1 tutoring prompt through Jasmine, a composite learner navigating a digital literacy course and the very real challenge of information overload.
Using a passage about digital literacy, online information, privacy, and responsible...
AI as a Reading Coach: Putting the Homework Help Lab to the Test | AI for Academic Success
What happens when we move from talking about responsible AI use to actually putting it into practice?
In this episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech Podcast, Dr. Renée Jordan begins a test run of the AI for Academic Success: Homework Help Lab by stepping into representative learner perspectives from the Black-Liberation.Tech ecosystem.
Using Ashle...
Read with Curiosity, Learn Through Questions
What if asking questions while you read isn't a sign that you don't understand—but evidence that you're actively learning?
In this episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech AI for Academic Success series, Dr. Renée Jordan enters the Homework Help Lab and begins putting the workbook's learning strategies into practice.
First, meet the Homework Help Lab Scholars and Nevaeh, a learner beginni...
In this bonus episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech podcast, we take a look at Hope + Clarity + Possibility, Dr. Renée Jordan and Laura Spale, host of "The Clarity Lens" podcast, explore uncertainty, reinvention, career pivots, identity, and the pressure to have life figured out. Through personal stories and reflection, they consider how curiosity, movement, and thoughtful use of AI can help us navigate seasons when the next step is...
What happens when the workshop ends—but you stay for the credits?
In this introductory episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech podcast’s AI for Academic Success series, Dr. Renée Jordan introduces the AI for Academic Success: Homework Help Lab workbook—an “Easter egg” originally created for learners who reached the end of the AG-STEM Career Exploration workshop.
Learn how the workbook was developed through ...
What if choosing a career isn't just about what you want to do—but about the problems you want to help solve?
In this episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech Podcast, we continue our Ag-STEM Career Discovery Lab Walkthrough with Step 8: Community Impact Challenge.
Career exploration is about more than finding a job.
It is about discovering how your interests, talents, and future career can contribute to your community and help solv...
Becoming a Critical Consumer of AI Information
What if the most important AI skill isn't learning how to get an answer—but learning how to determine whether the answer should be trusted?
In this episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech Podcast, we continue our Ag-STEM Career Discovery Lab Walkthrough with Step 7: Verify Then Trust.
Artificial Intelligence can be a powerful thinking partner, but it is not perfect. Strong AI users und...
What if the difference between curiosity and confidence is being able to see yourself in the role?
In this episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech Podcast, we continue our Ag-STEAm Career Discovery Lab Walkthrough with Step 6: Visualize the Role.
Career titles often sound interesting, but they can also feel distant and difficult to imagine. What does an Agricultural Drone Operations Specialist actually do every day? What tools does an U...
The Future Is Built One Step at a Time
What if the most important part of career exploration isn't choosing a career—but choosing your next step?
In this episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech Podcast, we conclude our Ag-STEM Career Discovery Lab Walkthrough with Step 9: Choose Your Next Step.
Career exploration is not about having all the answers.
It is about taking meaningful steps toward learning, growth, and discovery.
Throughou...
In this episode of the Black-Liberation.Tech Podcast, we continue our Ag-STEAm Career Discovery Lab Walkthrough with Step 5: Trace the Legacy & Expand the Story.
Community resilience is often described through plans, policies, infrastructure, and emergency management systems. But behind every resilient community are people whose vision, advocacy, research, leadership, and innovation helped create pathways for others.
Together, we...
Context, Purpose, and Follow-Up Questions
In Part 4 of the Ag-STEM Career Discovery Lab series, Dr. Renée Jordan explores one of the most important concepts in AI literacy and prompt engineering:
Why do some prompts produce more useful responses than others?
Listeners compare a simple prompt with a more detailed prompt and discover how context, interests, goals, and purpose help Janiyah GPT provide more personalized career suggestions...
In Part 3 of the Ag-STEM Career Discovery Lab series, Dr. Renée Jordan demonstrates what happens after you submit your Career Discovery Prompt to Janiyah GPT.
Using interests in technology, artificial intelligence, design, helping people, community impact, and AI literacy, Dr. Jordan walks through the results generated by Janiyah GPT and reflects on three Ag-STEM career pathways:
• Agricultural AI Education Specialist • Community Res...
In Part 2 of the Ag-STEM Career Discovery Lab series, Dr. Renée Jordan guides students through the exciting world of Ag-STEM careers while introducing the foundations of prompt engineering.
Students explore career pathways across agriculture, environmental science, animal sciences, artificial intelligence, robotics, sustainability, health, food systems, and data science. From Agricultural Data Scientists and Drone Operations Special...
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