Black Geographies of Educational Leadership | Dr. Dana Nickson

Описание: The Black Geographies: Place, Power and Possibility webinar Series explores Black geographies as a mode of thought and as a critical site of study, praxis, and imagination. Together, we will consider how Black placemaking, spatial memory and imaginaries, and geographic thought unsettle dominant cartographies of power while opening possibilities for alternative futures in and beyond formal educational contexts. Conversations will attend to the textures of place (e.g., histories, sounds, images, and rhythms) and the insights they offer into relation, sovereignty, and everyday Black living.

Dr, Dana Nickson is an assistant professor of education equity and justice in leadership, policy, and politics at the University of Washington- Seattle. Her research centers Black families’ diverse forms of educational and spatial agency to deepen understanding of how Black families and communities create places of care, collectivity, and learning in racially and economically unjust U.S. metropolitan regions. Informed by her own upbringing and work across community organizations and schools, Dana approaches research and teaching with a deep belief in Black families and communities’ multifaceted forms of agency as integral to more expansive and liberatory approaches to educational leadership and practice.