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Symone McCollum - Undergraduate student scholar and leader at the Pennsylvania State University
Three Ways to Boss Up: The Words of Wisdom (and an Action Plan) from an African American Undergraduate Woman Scholar
Symone McCollum is currently a scholar, leader and entrepreneur at the Pennsylvania State University. Named "Woman of the Year" by the Black Student Union, Symone serves as the current President for the National Council of Negro Women (PSU branch), scholar in the Presidential Leadership Academy, Executive Director for the Dr. Martin Luther King Commemoration Committee, Resident Assistant, and black business owner.
Indira Bailey - Doctoral candidate in Art Education and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University
How Art Saves Lives on the Margins of School and Society
Art education is Indira Bailey’s passion. She taught vocational technical high school art for sixteen years. As an art educator, Bailey has dedicated her career to understanding how art inspired youths in urban areas. She had received several Fulbright-Hayes Fellowships to South Africa, Morocco, and Japan researching how culture impacts art education. Bailey has received several national teacher fellowships, served on New Jersey DOE committees, and the finalist for New Jersey Teacher of the Year. Currently, Indira is examining the absence of Black women represented in art education and its implications in the K-12 art classroom.
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I'm an Associate Professor of Literacy and Language, African American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. I focus on dismantling supremacist patriarchies through research, teaching, and coaching. As a sociocultural literacist, I work to understand personal and public voices and stories to solve personal and public problems. I do this by researching the evolutionary nature and function of literacies and texts through the discourses of narrative research. My work exposes impetuses for various personal and social ills such as racism, sexism, and ableism.
I love to meditate way before dawn, work out like a soldier, and shop alone. I prefer rum to wine, jeans to skirts, and like my heels sky high (except when I'm wearing cowboy boots). Every year I ask my stylist to cornrow and bead my hair in homage to Patrice Rushen and Stevie Wonder (if you know of these artists and understand why demonstrating embodied respect for them is important, we can probably be friends). I believe in ghosts, fairies, and hobbits (for real). Musically, I vibe to old school everything (hip hop, R&B, jazz, rock, and classical) and especially dig Hildegard von Bingen. I trust children a little bit more than adults, respect teens for their fearlessness, admire elders for their tenacity, and occasionally prefer the company of dogs to people. I'm really getting into interior design and have a penchant for acquiring east coast real estate. I'm also a survivor of multiple terrors in love.
I invite you to learn more about me and the projects I am involved with at JeanineStaples.com.