Our Contributors
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Special Section: Women of Color in the Academy
B.A.L. is a scholar and educator committed to fostering equity and inclusion in higher education. She has dedicated her career to advancing educational opportunities for students from underserved communities. After earning her PhD degree in history in 2013, she served as an assistant professor at the largest Hispanic-serving institution in Texas. There, she advocated for inclusive curriculum and created culturally relevant programming for the student body and broader community. Subsequently, she taught women's studies to incarcerated women at the Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in addition to mentoring undergraduate women in hands-on research experiences at home and abroad. Currently, she is an associate professor at an urban Hispanic-serving and minority-serving institution, where she directs the Center for Latino Studies.
Imaani Jamillah El-Burki is a media and cultural studies scholar with a PhD degree in communication, culture, and media from Drexel University. Her research examines the ways in which media representations of various social groups become visual, textual, and linguistic expressions of both dominant and peripheral definitions of difference. She investigates the relationships between media representation, media framing, and individual and collective identity; social policy; and existing social hierarchies.
S. Tay Glover is an interdisciplinary Black lesbian feminist scholar-artist and healer pursuing her PhD degree at Northwestern University in the Department of African American Studies, from which she has a master's degree. She received her bachelor's degree in women's studies and political science, and her master's in women's, gender, and sexuality studies from The Ohio State University. Her research and art centers on occult studies, history, feminisms, Black Southern queer women's experiences, erotic counter-cultures, and critical theory.
Kimberly D. McKee is the director of the Kutsche Office of Local History and an assistant professor in liberal studies at Grand Valley State University. Her monograph, Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States, is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. Additionally, her work has been featured in Journal of Korean Studies and Adoption & Culture, as well as in edited collections exploring transnational kinship and representations of Asian Americans. She serves on the executive committee for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture.
Donna J. Nicol is an associate professor and the chair of Africana studies at California State University Dominguez Hills. She teaches courses in Africana womanhood, comparative ethnic studies, and African American history. Her research focuses on forces outside of academia, namely conservative foundations and boards of trustees, that affect African Americans' access and achievement within U.S. colleges and universities. She has previously published work in Feminist Teacher on the ethical and practical considerations of using racist and sexist media in the classroom.
Melissa Phruksachart (prook-sa-shart) is LSA Collegiate Fellow in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. She teaches and researches across Asian/American studies, women of color and transnational feminist politics, and U.S. minority film and media.
María R. Scharrón-del Río is a professor and program coordinator of the School Counseling Graduate Program in the Department of School Psychology, Counseling, and Leadership (SPCL) at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY). A predoctoral Ford Foundation and American Psychological Association's Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) fellow, they received their PhD degree in clinical psychology from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and completed their clinical internship at the Cambridge Hospital with the Harvard Medical School in Boston. After moving to New York City, they worked as an assistant child psychologist at the Washington Heights Family Health Center, a primary-care clinic that serves a predominantly Latinx immigrant community. They are an active leader in GLARE (GLBTQ Advocacy in Research and Education) since joining the Brooklyn College faculty in 2006. They are committed to the development of multicultural competencies in counselors, psychologists, and educators using experiential and affective educational approaches. They were awarded the 2017 Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher Award, the highest recognition for pedagogical achievements and contributions at Brooklyn College. Their research, scholarship, and advocacy focus on ethnic and cultural minority psychology...
