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 McKenzie Stokes. Dr. Stokes holds a PhD in applied social and community psychology as well as a graduate certificate in Family Life Education and Coaching. Dr. Stokes is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the National Science Foundation, where sh...
Mar 12, 2022•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 Kenisha Dennis. Kenisha Dennis founded Black Girls Can Inc. to help foster the next generation of Black Girl talent within the areas of STEM, Entrepreneurship, Financial Literacy, Arts and Wellness by providing free enrichment programs to middle sc...
Feb 26, 2022•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. Cierra Kaler-Jones. Cierra Kaler-Jones, Ph.D. (she/her) is a social justice educator, researcher, and artist based in Washington, DC. As a community-based researcher, Dr. Kaler-Jones’s research broadly focuses on how to create and sustain educa...
Feb 12, 2022•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 Stephanie McGary. Stephanie is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Registered Play Therapist who currently runs a private practice called Tots N' Teachers, providing mental health counseling to tots (children) and counseling and consultation to e...
Jan 30, 2022•33 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, we have a solo episode with our founder Kristi. Kristi is an educator and EdD candidate at Texas Southern University. Her dissertation focus is the impact of social emotional learning practices on the discipline rates of African American middle school girls. Kr...
Jan 16, 2022•9 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 Jillian “JJ” Simmons. Jillian is a veteran radio/tv host, Self-Love Coach, 3 X author and speaker from Cincinnati, Ohio. She has captivated audiences in major cities across the country, including New York City at the legendary WBLS-FM, where she wo...
Jul 19, 2021•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 Dr. Queinnise Miller. Even after more than 20 years as an educator, Dr. Queinnise Miller continues to have a passion for teaching, learning and leading. As a teacher, motivational speaker, trainer, author, and educational leader, Dr. Miller is driv...
Jul 19, 2021•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 Tara Haskins. Tara is honored to serve as the Founding School Leader of Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy. Following her graduation from Hampton University, Tara joined the New Teacher Project (TNTP) and taught middle school English and Languag...
Jul 19, 2021•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 Dr. Michelle Fennick. Dr. Fennick began her career as an educator over 30 years ago as a teaching assistant and later became a teacher after earning her B.S. at the University of Houston. She was a non-traditional student and graduated cum laude. S...
Jul 19, 2021•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 Rev. Khristi Lauren Adams. Khristi is a speaker, author, youth advocate and ordained Baptist minister. Khristi is the author of Parable of the Brown Girl which is published by Fortress Press and released February 2020. The book highlights the cultu...
Jun 09, 2021•35 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 Theresa Ann Dickerson. Theresa is a research fellow studying health disparities, a recently published writer in the American Journal of Public Health, and the founder of a social impact initiative called Project Girl Undefined: Empowering Girls Thr...
Jun 06, 2021•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 Dominique M. Williams. Dominique is a well-being advocate for girls and women. She is the CEO of Inspiring and Empowering Ladies an organization dedicated to inspiring, empowering, and equipping girls and women to develop a greater sense of self. D...
May 26, 2021•18 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 Analise Harris. Founder of Curls on the Block, Analise currently works as an adjunct professor at Community College of Denver. Hailing from Waukegan, Illinois, after obtaining a degree in Sociology and Communications at Creighton University, she mo...
Apr 24, 2021•40 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 Jillian Bradfield. A native of College Park, GA, Jillian is a proud product of the Atlanta Public School System. Jillian graduated from Frederick Douglass High School in the City of Atlanta, Savannah State University (Savannah, GA), where she obtai...
Mar 24, 2021•16 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 Kirby Felder. Kirby didn’t begin a career in education the conventional way. She studied Technical Theatre at Hampton University and worked as a theatre technician. During this time, she worked with a children's theatre that gave her new insight in...
Mar 20, 2021•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 Breenae Washington. Breenae is an engineer with a passion for diversity and inclusion. Growing up, she excelled at math and science but often questioned her abilities because she didn’t see other girls who shared her interests. Despite the lack of ...
Mar 02, 2021•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 Brittany Rhodes. Brittany is a math tutor, former GED Math Instructor, and Founder and General MATHager of Black Girl MATHgic (BGM). BGM is a movement dedicated to increasing math confidence, awareness, enthusiasm, identity, fluency, and persistenc...
Feb 04, 2021•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 Chelsae Moreland. Chelsea is a mother, self-published author of the book “B is For Black Girl” and a year 7 teacher. She is a graduate of The Southern University of Baton Rouge- the greatest HBCU in all the land!! (*Note those are her words not min...
Jan 24, 2021•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 Ashley Y. Lipscomb. Ashley is the Co-founder & CEO of the Institute for Anti-Racist Education, Inc. and she has a wealth of experience working with, motivating, and advocating for students and educators. A graduate of Hampton University (BA Eng...
Jan 06, 2021•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 Keisha Bussey. Keisha D. Bussey has been an educator for the past 19 years and has a love and passion for dance. She is a God-fearing woman. She is a Dance Educator, Speaker, and Owner & Artistic Director of Fierce6 Elite Dance & Fitness. K...
Oct 13, 2020•20 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 Cierra, a social justice educator, writer, and scholar based in Washington, DC. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland - College Park studying minority and ...
Sep 20, 2020•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 St. Clair Detrick-Jules. Born and raised in Washington, DC, St. Clair Detrick-Jules is a filmmaker whose work focuses on social justice. A graduate of Brown University, she advocates for marginalized communities. She is the author of “Dear Khloe” L...
Jul 30, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 3
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. Patti O'Brien-Richardson, Patti is the Founder of Move it Nation, Inc. a 501c3 non-profit organization whose mission is to empower youth to move their bodies and minds. Social Media: TeachHER Podcast (Instagram)- @the_TeachHERPodcast The Innoce...
Jul 07, 2020•43 min
Welcome to the TeachHER Podcast. Our mission is to convey strategies for Grit & Grace with educators and advocates of African American and Latina girls. Today's episode is an introduction to the podcast with the host Kristi Morale. Kristi Morale is a veteran educator and the Founder of The Innocent Brown Girl Project. The Innocent Brown Girl Project curates curriculum and professional development for educators and advocates of African American and Latina girls. Social Media: The TeachHER Pod...
May 07, 2020•5 min
