Posts by Live and Lives

Dr. Bekisizwe S. Ndimande is a Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching and Faculty Associate in the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He conducts research in the areas of curriculum studies, education policy, and anti-colonial studies. Dr. Ndimande’s article, From Bantu…

Dr. Iman Djouini is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara. Often employing print media, placemaking, and typography, Dr. Djouini’s art practice explores themes of gender and postcolonial spatial relations. Her teaching and research interests include decolonial pedagogies through design-based learning, theory, and studio-based research.

Dr. Stephanie Leigh Batiste is a Professor of English, Black Studies, Theater and Dance, and Comparative Literature at UC Santa Barbara and Director of the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative. Professor Batiste’s research areas include Race and Racism, Performance Studies, African American Literature and Culture, American Studies, Cultural Studies, and U.S. History. Professor Batiste’s award-winning book,…

Dr. Alice Y. Lee is Assistant Professor of Critical Literacy in the School of Education at University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on the raciolinguistic life experiences of teachers, and how such experiences are embodied into pedagogy. She employs this lens to interrogate the continued maltreatment of Black Language speakers, particularly early childhood and…

 Dr. Daniel Araya is senior partner with the World Legal Summit and senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). His current work supports research on artificial intelligence and autonomous systems with a particular focus on global governance. He is a regular contributor to various media outlets and organizations including Forbes, the Brookings…

Dr. C. Brandon Ogbunu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University, and an external Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Dr. Ogbunu is a computational biologist whose research investigates complex problems in epidemiology, biomedicine, genetics, and evolution. In addition, he runs a parallel research program at the…

Dr. Portia York is an exhibiting fiber artist and adjunct professor who teaches fibers courses at University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She earned a B.A Sociology from Clark University, M. Management from Cambridge College, Master of Advanced Crochet Stitches and Techniques from Crochet Guild of America, and Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, Urban Education from…

Dr. Bryant York earned the A.B. Mathematics at Brandeis University, M.S. Management at MIT, M.S. and Ph.D. Computer Science at University of Massachusetts – Amherst. While his professional positions include Research Staff Member, IBM San Jose Research Labs, Consulting Engineer, Digital Equipment Corporation’s Artificial Intelligence Center, and professorial positions in computer science at Boston University,…

Dr. Terrance Wooten is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara, which he joined after serving as a 2017-2018 Mark Steinberg Weil Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of…