Shalander Samuels

Shifting contracts and cultures, from DEI to erasure: the racialised faculty experience of changes in higher education

Higher education institutions across the United States are undergoing profound cultural shifts shaped by the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as political backlash against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. These intersecting challenges are resh...

Dream Doulas: Cultivating DreamSpaces through Radical, Holistic Pedagogy

Drawing on Hersey’s (2022) articulation of DreamSpace, we explore how classrooms can be cultivated as sites where dreaming is protected, honored, and mobilized in service of collective restoration and liberation. Anchored in our experiences as Black women scholar-practitioners, t...