Letters From The Lab

“We lived weekly in the intersection of niceness and silence.” - Stephen A.A few months ago, I had the opportunity to talk with two other speakers with a group of doctoral students in a program at a university here in Denver.  The…

Welcome to our first Exit Interview Newsletter!  We are so excited to get the 2024 year started by sharing behind-the-scenes content, upcoming episodes, and other dope things coming down the pipe.  Come along with us as we start our 4th se…

“The first thing he starts with me is about racism and how he believes in the bootstrap kind of idea of everything. And that's what he teaches the students here at the school, and he starts asking me all these questions. And I told him, I said…

Hey Exit Interview Community!As a consulting firm focused on supporting youth-serving organizations, we feel it important to focus on some of the most minoritized folks in the youth-serving spaces; Black educators. Amid ongoing conversations surro…

 As a part of the Black Educator Wellness Cohort, a program Dr. Ellie Cahill and I co-facilitate monthly for educators in the Denver Metro Area, we are reading, My Grandmother's Hands. The author talks about clean and dirty pain in one of the…

In May 2022 I graduated with my doctorate in Leadership for Educational Equity.  Of all of the things that happened during the commencement (besides me crying like a newborn as dr. jefferson hooded me), the commencement speaker’s speech i…

 Four years ago, I was an educator in a district teaching middle schoolers about what happens in society when a lack of humanity exists.  I asked them to examine with me what social justice means and why it is necessary when humanity is …

Last year, during a discussion in a pre-service teaching class I instruct, a Black woman asked me a simple and complex question, “Do all Black teachers experience racism at work?”.  My answer is, “Yes, of course. If we experie…