the work

My work is dedicated to

the knowability of black girls in mathematics

Knowability is the availability of epistemological resources to make sense of lived experiences. For Black girls and women, few epistemological resources exist that allow for understanding the experience of doing mathematics while Black and a girl. Efforts to promote equity for Black girls in mathematics context must be premised on a fundamental understanding of the emergent and enduring meanings, performances, and identities of Black girlhood. My work seeks to make such epistemological resources available and phenomenological realities known to the mathematics education community.

My writing

An image of the spaces of inquiry for Black girls in mathematics.

building a research agenda for and through blackgirlhood

My Research

current projects

The UJIMA Project is a mixed-methods longitudinal study of the mathematics identity development of 250-300 Black youth. This project is funded by NSF Early CAREER award.

quiltd project

The Questioning Inequality in Learning and Teaching Dynamics (QuILTD) Project explores the teaching demands of communicating across various kinds of social difference (age, race, gender, class,…) in mathematics classrooms. This project is funded by NSF EHR award.

study of black families response to covid-19

The Study of Black Families Response to COVID-19 in Mathematics explores the mathematics teaching and learning experiences during the pandemic. This project is funded by the U-M Center for Social Solutions award.

mapes project

The Mathematics Advising Program Exploratory Student (MAPES) Project is an exploratory student of mathematics advising practices of undergraduates with a particular focus on the impact of gender.

My Teaching

designing learning experiences for critical literacies

My Dreaming

forecasting blackgirl mathematical futures

I am arguing that it is not enough for us, as critical scholars, to identify the problematic experiences and phenomenological realities of marginalized children but to begin designing for their futures. The discourse of inequity and justice— however righteous— falls upon deaf ears. We need a way to lift our fight off the page and into the social imagination.  I am calling for a revolution of not of research theory or method, but a revolution of representation!

—2019 Psychology in Mathematics Education-North America Conference: Plenary

my hands

inside of my community

...reclaiming our role as architects of our children's education by drawing on the legacy of Black educational resilience.
The Reclamation Education Project
Co-Founder