Recent Projects

Black Women Educators Healing Circles   

A community-based participatory research project with Black women teachers and school leaders (n = 30), I co-facilitated and observed four 90-minute teaching and learning circles, which participants called “healing circles.” 
A grant-funded study with EdSurge Research. Part of the CPAR method included co-authoring public facing long-form research articles with participants written in accessible language and style. 


Black youth perceived quality of life, identity development, and learning outcomes (ongoing dissertation)
Abstract
This research aims to determine the predictors of stressful life events and understand how they affect behavioral and mental health, functioning, and learning outcomes for adolescents. I explore how parents’ perceived quality of life influences their children’s perceived quality of life, identities, and self-concepts. Each variable is compared  across race ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender and sexual orientation and includes a time trend analysis pre- and post-Covid-19 pandemic.