Special Episode: Episode 141 :The Exit Interview Podcast
In this weeks compelling episode, we speak with Dr. Asia Lyons, CEO of Lyons Educational Consulting, co-facilitator of the Black Educator Wellness Cohort, and co-host of The Exit Interview Podcast. With experiences spanning Detroit to Denver, Dr. Lyons shares her journey, from attending a gifted high school and navigating failure in college, to shedding light on the critical role of community colleges and nontraditional pathways into education (#shoutout to those bus routes!).
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Deezer Preserving Black Educator Stories | The Schomburg Center
The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators has been accepted for archival preservation at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, part of the New York Public Library. This historic milestone ensures that the experiences, knowledge, and voices of Black educators who have left traditional education will be preserved for future generations.
Learn more: https://www.liberatededucatorslab.com/schomburg
The Migration of Black Genius
Where does Black genius go when it leaves an institution?
Through The Migration of Black Genius, Dr. Asia Lyons examines how Black knowledge, creativity, and expertise move, evolve, and expand beyond the institutions where they were once cultivated or constrained.
The Exit Interview contributes to this ongoing intellectual work by documenting not only why Black educators leave, but what they carry with them and what becomes possible afterward.
Explore the framework: https://www.liberatededucatorslab.com/migration-of-black-genius
About the Creator
Dr. Asia Lyons is a qualitative researcher, storykeeper, public scholar, speaker, and founder of Liberated Educators Lab, where research, storykeeping, and healing/wellness intersect to illuminate Black experiences, preserve community knowledge, and imagine possibilities beyond institutional boundaries.
Learn more: https://www.liberatededucatorslab.com/
CEO and Principal Consultant
firm that supports foundations, schools, and other non-profits in creating culturally responsive programming and curriculum through equity-centered design thinking.
Before founding Lyons Educational Consulting, Dr. Lyons worked as a K-12 educator for over 10 years. She also served as the school-partner specialist. She worked with schools and other non-profits across the Denver Metro Area to provide communities with resources to help close the access gap for Black children and children of Color.
Dr. Lyons has her doctorate in Leadership for Educational Equity. Her research focuses on how racism-related stress and racial battle fatigue cross over from Black educators to their families.
In addition to her work in consulting, Dr. Lyons is the co-host of, The Exit Interview: A Podcast for Black Educators, a podcast focusing on the lived experience of former Black educators. Finally, she co-facilitates the Black Educator Wellness Cohort, a healing space created to support Black educators and their families with racial trauma.
