Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is St. Clair Detrick-Jules. St. Clair is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, author, activist, and public speaker. She captures personal stories and intimate moments centering Black liberation, immigrant justice, and women's rights. An Afro-Cari...
Jun 04, 2024•22 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Derrin Moore. Derrin Moore has coached gymnastics for over 25 years, including numerous State, Regional, and National Champions. She is the owner of In Flight Gymnastics & Circus in Decatur, GA. She had a goal to reach the underserved communiti...
May 03, 2024•23 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Amber Wilson. Amber has over 20 years of non-profit experience as a direct service provider, managing community-based programs, and leading department-wide culture improvement, training, and retention efforts. Her advocacy, change management, manag...
Apr 26, 2024•25 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Jasmyn Williams. Jasmyn is a proud inner-city educator whose mission is to change the narrative and teaching practices associated with urban school districts. She currently serves as an instructional coach and dean in East Cleveland, Ohio. She is r...
Apr 11, 2024•44 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Kyonna Hardy. Kyonna is a former high school teacher who taught for almost 10 years and then transitioned to behavioral support services for another 7. She most recently started her own consulting business that focuses primarily on Restorative Prac...
Apr 04, 2024•31 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Stacey Allen. Stacey Allen is an award-winning performance artist, curator, and advocate for arts education, all while being a wife and mother to three beautiful children. Maintaining her artistic practice while navigating Motherhood has come with ...
Mar 22, 2024•39 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Dr. Brandi Clay. As an accomplished, visionary leader in education with years of teaching, leading, and program development experience, Brandi Clay, Ed.D has significantly contributed to the 21st century education system. Dr. Clay, has been an educ...
Aug 16, 2023•44 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Paige Woods. Paige serves as the Chief of Staff for Black Girls Smile, working closely with the entire BGS team to synchronize efforts toward the wellness needs of Black girls and women. As a trained ethnographer, Paige values the story and experie...
Jul 30, 2023•39 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Angela Shanté Johnson. Angela is a former K-12 classroom teacher, and award-winning author of THE NOISY CLASSROOM, a picture book that she wrote about her third-grade classroom to help soothe childhood anxiety associated with school and change. Th...
Jul 19, 2023•28 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Dr. Qiana O’Leary. Dr. Qiana is an education reformer and author who has spent her years of service founding charter schools, establishing nonprofit organizations, and mentoring students. She believes that a quality education is the foundation for ...
Jul 14, 2023•25 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Devin Moore. At the age of 14, Devin Moore became the Founder of #RaceToSpeakUp, an anti-bullying organization, where he educates youth about bullying prevention and empowers them to be upstanders. Devin is a first time Author of the Devin Speaks U...
Jul 06, 2023•29 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Silver Moore. Silver is an educator, indigenous Detroiter, and the founder and executive director of Classroom Clapback. Through Classroom Clapback, Silver seeks to clapback at a system of miseducation by developing relevant and rigorous curricula ...
Jun 28, 2023•34 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Sharee Miller. Sharee is an illustrator and author best known for her acclaimed picture book Don't Touch My Hair. Her other books include Princess Hair, and Michelle’s Garden: How the First Lady planted seeds of Change. Sharee is currently working ...
Jun 07, 2023•21 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Dr. Stephanie R. Boyce. Dr. Boyce is an edupreneur driven by her passion to reshape the educational landscape by making culturally responsive teaching a way of life. For the last decade, Boyce has focused her studies and work on matters of racial j...
May 24, 2023•46 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is TaKiyah Wallace. TaKiyah is the Founder and Executive Director of Brown Girls Do Ballet. TaKiyah began shooting the Brown Girls Do Ballet photo project in 2012 after searching for diverse classical ballet programs in Dallas, Texas, through photos o...
May 03, 2023•41 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Megan Wilburn. Megan is a veteran educator with a Master's Degree in School Counseling. As a counselor, she discovered that students often misbehaved due to the lack of tools needed to relieve stress, communicate their needs and frustrations, and t...
Apr 26, 2023•26 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Tameka Kee. Tameka is our Founder & CEO, leading the strategic vision and direction of The Power of Girls. Tameka has over 15 years of experience in experiential marketing, community development and partnership activation. She has also held com...
Apr 19, 2023•37 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Aj Crabill. Improving student outcomes is AJ Crabill’s focus. He serves as Conservator at DeSoto, Texas ISD. During his guidance, DeSoto improved from F ratings in academics, finance, and governance to B ratings. He’s also Faculty at Leadership Ins...
Apr 12, 2023•31 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Janae Marks. Janae Marks is the critically acclaimed author of middle grade novels From the Desk of Zoe Washington, A Soft Place to Land, and On Air with Zoe Washington. She has an MFA in Writing for Children from The New School. She is also part o...
Apr 05, 2023•26 min•Season 4Ep. 9
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Sha’Rell Webb. Sha’Rell was the first African American to be named an Education Specialist for NASA’s Lunar and Planetary Institute in its history! In this role, she collaborated with various scientists who conducted Planetary Science Research and ...
Mar 29, 2023•49 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Locha Brooks, originally from St. Louis, Missouri now residing in the great state of Texas in the DFW area. She is the founder and CEO of 1st Class Educator, LLC - one of the leading school consulting firms providing staff development and assistanc...
Mar 23, 2023•32 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Dawnavyn James. Dawnavyn is an early childhood, elementary, and Black history educator, professor, and Black history researcher. She has given presentations and led workshops promoting Black history teaching in early childhood and elementary classr...
Mar 02, 2023•25 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Mariama J. Lockington. Mariama J. Lockington is an adoptee, author, and educator. She has been telling stories and making her own books since the second grade, when she wore shortalls and flower leggings every day to school. Mariama is the author o...
Feb 22, 2023•34 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Dawn D. Florence. Dawn D. Florence is the loving wife of a retired U.S. Naval Officer; proud mother of three extraordinary adult children; dedicated, life-long educator; and the Founder and President of Little Sistahs in the Know, Inc. A 501(c)(3) ...
Feb 15, 2023•32 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Today, our guest is Keisha D. Bussey. Keisha has been an educator for the past 20 years and has a love and passion for dance. She is a God-fearing woman. Keisha D. Bussey, is a true “Valley Girl”, originally born and raised in Harlingen, Texas. Keisha has been dancing since she was in her mother’s womb. She discovered her love for dance at the Boys & Girls Club as a young girl. She later moved to Alexandria, Louisiana while at Bolton High School and continued to have a love for dance. She ha...
Feb 08, 2023•18 min•Season 4Ep. 30
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Roechelle Croskey. Roechelle Croskey, a Birmingham, Alabama native, understands the adversity young women will encounter in life. Roechelle created ELITE Girls Mentoring to help young women achieve their aspirations while developing leadership skil...
Feb 01, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 29
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Ssanyu Lukoma. Ssanyu is a teenage entrepreneur, author, and public speaker. In 2018, at 13 years old, she founded Brown Kids Read, a non-profit organization dedicated to motivating all children, but especially children of color, to read more diver...
Jan 18, 2023•30 min•Season 4Ep. 26
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Ahmya Rivera. Ahmya Rivera is a high-school-aged leader, learner, and advocate. Being Founder of Youth Upholding Democracy (YUD) proves she’s passionate about creating positive change. Along with this, she actively works to provide students STEAM e...
May 02, 2022•19 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Khristi Adams. Khristi Lauren Adams is a speaker, author, youth advocate and ordained Baptist minister. Khristi is the author of Parable of the Brown Girl, Unbossed: How Black Girls Are Leading the Way and its middle grade version Black Girls Unbos...
Apr 16, 2022•29 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast Powered by The Innocent Brown Girl Project. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina Girls. Thank you for joining us today. Today, our guest is Tammy Garnes. Tammy Garnes is the Vice President of Education & Understanding at ARRAY, overseeing education and social impact projects including ARRAY Crew. Garnes’ previous experience includes being a communications executive in the public ed...
Apr 02, 2022•28 min
