Watch to the encore presentation of the

Strengths & Struggles In School & Society: Producing Critical and Creative Examinations of Intersectional Lives
Presented By: Bucknell University Multicultural Student Services and UnHerd

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Strengths & Struggles Speakers

Ana Carolina Díaz Beltrán - Advanced doctoral candidate, Curriculum & Instruction at the Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Beth Berila - Director of the Women's Studies Program, Professor of Ethnic and Women's Studies at St. Cloud State University

Brian Davis - Undergraduate student scholar and leader at the Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Christiana Awosan - Assistant Professor, PhD., LMFT, Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Seton Hall University

Donna-Marie Cole-Malott - Advanced doctoral candidate, Curriculum & Instruction at the Pennsylvania State University

Dylan Rogers - Undergraduate Student at Bucknell University

Dr. Fred A. Bonner II - Professor and Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership and Counseling at Prairie View A&M University

Grevelin Ulerio - Undergraduate Student at Bucknell University

Indira Bailey - Doctoral candidate in Art Education and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Jennifer Turner - Associate Professor of Reading Education at University of Maryland College Park

Josh Hunter - Undergraduate student scholar and leader at Bucknell University

Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya - Associate Professor of Educational Leadership & Qualitative Research at Kansas State University

Dr. Kimberly Griffin - Associate Professor of Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy at the University of Maryland College Park

Dr. Margaret Ferrara - Director of Elementary, Secondary, and Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno

Dr. Michael Vavrus - Professor Emeritus, Interdisciplinary Studies at the Evergreen State College

Dr. Nikki Young - Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Religion at Bucknell University

Dr. Nina Banks - Associate Professor of Economics and Affiliated Faculty Member in Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Bucknell University

Pauli Badenhorst - Advanced doctoral candidate: Curriculum & Instruction and Comparative & International Education at the Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Rebecca Bigler Professor of Psychology and Women's and Gender Studies at University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Samantha Pinto - Associate Professor of African American Studies and English at Georgetown University

Dr. Samuel Tanner - Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at Penn State Altoona

Shirah Moffatt-Darko - Undergraduate student at Bucknell University

Dr. Shirley Moody-Turner - Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Silvia Bettez - Associate Professor in the Cultural Foundations program at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Dr. Stephanie Anne Shelton - Assistant Professor, Qualitative Educational Research at The University of Alabama

Dr. Stephen Graves - Postdoctoral Fellow of Political Science and Black Studies at the University of Missouri

Symone McCollum - Undergraduate student scholar and leader at the Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Wendi Williams - Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Bank Street College of Education

About Dr. Jeanine Staples

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.