Funding is the Matter

Bio: Dr. Jeannette Wade is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina A&T State University. Her areas of expertise include Medical Sociology, Race, and Gender Studies. Her scholarly work centers on improving health outcomes for Black women. Specifically, (1) engaging understudied populations in biomedical research, (2) using Black feminist theory and methods to contextualize trends in health risk behaviors and relate...

Bio: Kimberly Cameron is the Executive Director of the North Carolina A&T Real Estate Foundation, Inc. Born and raised in Milwaukee, WI Kim moved to NC from Atlanta in 2013. Ms. Cameron was the first Black Woman to receive a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from the University of Wisconsin and went on to obtain her MBA-Finance from Concordia University Wisconsin. Kimberly Cameron has over twenty-five years in comm...

Bio: Felecia Commodore is an Associate Professor of Higher Education in the Darden College of Education and Professional Studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.  Felecia's research focus area is leadership, governance, and administrative practices with a particular focus on HBCUs and MSIs. Felecia’s research interests also lie in the role of boards in achieving educational equity, how leadership is exercised, constr...

Bio: Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins is the former president of Bennett College. She is the Executive Director of the HBCU Executive Leadership Institute at Clark Atlanta University (HBCU ELI at CAU). 

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Burnett, C. A. (2020). Diversity under review: HBCUs and regional accreditation actions. Innovative Higher Education, 45(1),...

Bio: Dr. Kalynda C. Smith earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Social Psychology from Howard University and a BA in Psychology and English from Truman State University. Dr. Kalynda C. Smith is a social psychologist with expertise in STEM education and identity development research. I am currently a Co-PI or investigator on several interdisciplinary NSF-funded STEM education research projects.

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Dr. Akilah R. Carter-Francique (Ph.D., University of Georgia) joins Benedict College in the fall of 2022 as the Dean of the School of Education, Health and Human Services. With 20 years of experience in higher education, an extensive research background, and a strong vision for leadership in the field of education, Carter-Francique has served sporting spaces and centered experiences of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). 

Carter...

Bio: Joseph N. Cooper is the inaugural Dr. J. Keith Motley Endowed Chair of Sports Leadership and Administration at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston. Prior to UMass Boston, Cooper served as an associate professor at the University of Connecticut (UConn) in the Sport Management program in the Department of Educational Leadership and Neag School of Education. Cooper earned his undergraduate degrees in Sociology and Recr...

Bio:  Chimi Boyd-Keyes, Founder and CEO of CBK Enterprises. Based in North Carolina, CBK Enterprises is an intersectional for-profit consulting firm that focuses on racial and gender equity for all organizations and with particular expertise in training, strategic planning, and assessment of gender-based violence advocacy organizations. The motto for CBK Enterprises is “cultivating safe, inclusive environments through innovation an...

BIO: Dr. Steve D. Mobley Jr. is an associate professor of higher education and student affairs in the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership, and Policy in the School of Education and Urban Studies at Morgan State University. His scholarship focuses on the contemporary placement of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Particularly, Dr. Mobley Jr.’s research underscores the understudied facets of HBCU commu...

Bio: Dr. Kendric Coleman received his Ph.D. at Lousiana State University. His research interests challenge the assumptions that undergird the constructions of race and gender politics through interdisciplinary interrogation. Because of these interests, he enjoys teaching courses concerning Contemporary African American Literature, Introduction to African American Studies, and 20th Century American Literature. He has presented and p...

Bio: Dr. William Darity Jr., also known as Sandy Darity, is the Samuel DuBois (pronounced Dew Boys) Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, Economics, and Business and director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. Over the course of his academic career, his research has focused on the topics of racial and ethnic economic inequality and reparative justice. He launched t...

Bio: Jelani M Favors is the author of the national award-winning and highly acclaimed book “Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism”. He has joined the A&T  faculty as the Henry E. Frye Distinguished Professor.

Find his book at the following links: 

• https://uncpress.org/book/9781469661445/shelter-in-a-time-of-storm/
• https://www.scuppernongbooks.com/book...

Get in touch with Dr. Linda Beatrice Brown at the following link:
https://www.lindabeatricebrownauthor.com/

Get Dr. Linda Beatrice Brown's book at the following links below:

https://www.amazon.com/Belles-Liberty-Bennett-College-Movement/dp/0988893703

https://www.scuppernongbooks.com/book/9780988893702



Bio: Linda Beatrice Brown is the retired Willa B. Player Professor of Afric...

Thank you to Mr. Rodney Dawson for coming on the podcast to talk about redlining and the sit-in movement in Greensboro, NC. 

 He has started a summer speaker series with McGirt-Horton Library on Phillips Avenue in Greensboro.  The last program is scheduled for August 17th with Dr. Deborah Barnes. She’ll discuss lynching. The links to his speaker series and podcast are provided below. 

Future podcast release episodes:

Hip H...

Trigger Warning: Topics of sexual assault and abuse will be discussed during this episode. 

Hello, I am your host, Sarah Bartley, and I am a Ph.D. candidate in Nanoengineering at NC A&T. For the first episode, I will introduce myself. I will inform you of my academic path. I will also provide the breakdown of the topic for this series. I will also provide the breakdown of this series.

The structure of the podc...