NAME's March 22nd webinar session will delve into the contemporary issues impacting our work across all levels of education.
Join us on March 22nd at  1pm EST
(12pm  CST / 11am MST / 10am PST / 7am HT) 

Our distinguished speakers on the March 22nd Webinar are: 

Sheryl Croft is a Native Atlantean, educated during Jim Crow in the segregated south. Currently, Dr. Croft is Professor of Educational Leadership in the Bagwell College of Education of Kennesaw State University, Coordinator of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership, and Director of Teaching in the Urban South (TITUS), a multi-state affiliation of scholars dedicated to providing and ensuring educational opportunities for marginalized students throughout the Southeast. Dr. Croft’s research foci explores the ramifications of national and state educational reform within school settings, authentic collaborations between K-12 and higher education, and the ways in which school leaders using historical Black leadership paradigms can provide educational opportunities for all students. Most  llustrative of this work is her co-edited work, Living the Legacy of African American Education: A Model for University and School Engagement, that exemplifies how past paradigms may be used to inform contemporary leadership practices.

Tiffany D. Pogue, PhD (she/her/hers) serves as the Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs and an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at Albany State University. As a proud HBCU graduate and administrator, her research interests include Black Educational History and Philosophy, Black Literacy Traditions, and Community-School Engagement. Tiffany believes that through a critical exploration and examination of history, scholars and activists can collaboratively craft a narrative of hope, and plans for, the improvement of society. Her current work examines the role of Black women’s literacy in the practices of Black spirituality, Black educational activism, and HBCU First Year Experience programming.

Vincent Willis is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in New College with a joint appointment in Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He is a 2019-2020 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Vincent is a twentieth century educational historian with expertise on social movements that examine the relationship between legal decisions, race, social justice, and democracy. His first book, Audacious Agitation: Black Youth and the Uncompromising Commitment to Equal Education Post-Brown (University of Georgia Press), is a historical analysis of the sociopolitical factors that contributed to the perpetuation of a racially stratified educational system and the various ways black youth responded after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. Vincent is working on his second book, Exhaustive Defiance: Black Youth and the Persistent Quest to Democratizing Extracurricular Activities in Public Schools, 1964- 1975, which (re)constructs a history of competing philosophies about the right to participate in extracurricular activities during the freedom of choice phase of desegregation.

Miyoshi Juergensen is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is a proud HBCU graduate, having earned her undergraduate degree from North Carolina Central University (NCCU), before completing her MEd in Educational Leadership at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and her PhD in Educational Studies at Emory University. Her research focuses on the intellectual, pedagogical, and leadership histories of African American educators in Southern segregated schools and the potential for these legacies to impact contemporary schooling challenges. As such, she is committed to preparing teachers, teacher leaders, and school leaders as agents of change who are not only skilled in pedagogy and leadership but also deeply aware of the socio-cultural and historical dynamics that impact their students and their schooling communities. She is a former high school teacher and district-level teacher leader who brings over 20 years of experience as an educator to her work. She also serves as an executive board member of Teaching in the Urban South (TITUS), a non-profit network of scholars, practitioners, parents, students, and other community stakeholders seeking to (re)create solution-oriented practices that best serve marginalized students in the Southeast.

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