I am an assistant professor in the Department of Education at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).

My research and teaching interests broadly focus on how issues of race, culture and identity influence teaching and learning for historically marginalized youth.

My current work examines the ways in which culturally relevant teaching practices, which recognizes students’ cultural identities and practices as assets within the classroom, mediate Black male youths’ academic achievement, identity-making, and social consciousness.

My work engages critical sociocultural theory, curriculum theory, critical race theory, critical multicultural education, and qualitative research methods.