EDUCATION Doctorate of Philosophy, Education, University of California, Berkeley, CA; May 1999
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2004 Black In School: Afrocentric Reform, Urban Youth and the Promise of Hip-Hop Culture. Teachers College Press, Columbia University: New York
2003 Youth Organizing: Expanding Possibilities for Youth Development. New York: Funder's Collaborative on Youth Organizing: Occasional Papers Series.
2002 New Terrain in Youth Development: The Promise of a Social Justice Approach. Social Justice (Ginwright and Cammarota) Social Justice, 29(4).
2002 Classed Out: The Challenges of Social Class in Black Community Change. Social Problems, 49(4), 544-562.
2002 From Assets to Agents: Social Justice, Organizing and Youth Development New Directions in Youth Development (Ginwright and James) New Directions in Youth Development, 96(Winter).
2001 Critical Resistance: American Racism and African American Youth. Youth Development Journal, August 2001. Issue 3
1999 Identity For Sale; The use of racial and cultural identity in urban school reform Urban Review.(32), 87-104
1999 Identity For Sale: The Afrocentric Movement and the Black Urban Struggle in Oakland Public Schools. Dissertation, University of California Berkeley
1992 Perceived Intercultural Training Effectiveness in the Workplace, Thesis, San Diego State University
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
April, 2002 Engaging Youth in Experiential Learning Through Civic Activism. Special Interest Group on Experiential Learning. Panel discussant. American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA
April, 2001 Schooling and Social Movements. Paper presented at Pacific Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA
April, 1999 Identity for Sale: Urban mobilization and Class Conflict Within Oakland’s Black Community, Pacific Sociological Association April 1999, Portland Oregon
April, 1997 Theorizing the Afrocentric Social Movement; Understanding the Limits and Possibilities of Afrocentrism in Urban Schools American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL
January, 1997 Understanding Afrocentric Social Movement and it’s Impact on Urban Schools, Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego, CA
June, 1996 Afrocentric Movement and the Urban Environment; Identity Politics in Urban School Reform, Midterm Conference of the Research Committee on Sociology of Education of the International Sociological Association, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
January, 1996 Bridging Critical Pedagogy and Popular Culture; Using Rap Music in an Urban Classroom, School of Education Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA
January, 1996 Racism in Urban Schools; Implications for African American Students, School of Education Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
April, 1995 Pedagogy From the Hood; Reaching Youth At Risk Through Hip Hop Culture, National Conference for At Risk Youth, Savannah, GA
April, 1995 Will the Real Racist Please Stand? Understanding Racism in Urban Schools, Eyes on the Mosaic Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
October, 1992 A Model of Intercultural Training Effectiveness, Western Speech Communication Association, Boise, Idaho
October 1991 Education and the Urban Child, Association of Black Educators, Los Angeles, CA
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
March 2004 Challenging Structural Racism: Innovations, Barriers, and Needs in Youth Development. Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity, Washington DC
February 2002 Understanding Youth Through Schools and Communities, Social Policy Research Associates, Oakland, CA
November, 2001 Toward a Social Justice Model of Youth Development, Funder’s Collaborative on Youth Development, San Francisco, CA
November, 2001 Beyond Youth Development Third Annual LISTEN conference in Baltimore, MD
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS GRANTS December 2003 Ford Foundation $225,000 to support the project entitled, Youth Social Justice and Communities: Toward a National Youth Policy. The project builds a community of scholars of color to explore social justice issues related to children and youth in urban communities and develops policy recommendations for local and national youth stakeholders.
November, 2000 Santa Clara University Research Grant on Social Problems $6,500 to support the cost of data collection, equipment, student research assistant stipends, subscriptions to relevant journals and other research costs
December, 1999 The Center for Multicultural Learning: Building Partnerships for Diversity
June, 1999 Ford Foundation Leadership Excellence Inc. $225,000 over three years to document urban youth leadership development activities and to develop training and curriculum handbook.
September, 1996 Heron Foundation Leadership Excellence Inc., $30,000 to hire full and part time staff to transition from volunteer staff to paid staff positions.
October, 1997 Walter S. Johnson Foundation Leadership Excellence Inc., $55,000 over two years to improve and evaluate effectiveness of youth development services to low income African American teens.
October, 1997 Evelyn and Walter Haas Foundation Leadership Excellence Inc., $40,000 over two years to expand services to low income African American teens in Oakland.
FELLOWSHIPS
September, 1997 Flanders Fellowship University of California Berkeley, School of Education
September, 1996 Flanders Fellowship University of California Berkeley, School of Education
September, 1996 Forgivable Loan Doctoral Award California State University
September, 1992 Graduate Minority Fellowship
August, 1990 Graduate Equity Fellowship San Diego State University
November, 1990 Debut Scholar, Outstanding Scholarly Paper Award National Convention of Communication
AWARDS
May, 1999 University of California Berkeley, School of Education Nominated for the Outstanding Dissertation Award.
CONSULTING
February, 2001 Aspen Institute, Washington D.C. Advisor; Aspen Institute Project on Structural Racism
April, 1999 Ford Foundation, New York, New York Youth Leadership for Development Initiative design team
October, 2000 Innovation Center, Baltimore, MD Youth Leadership and Development evaluation team
1997 to Present Develop fiscal management and financial oversight plans. Work closely with Executive Director in budget development Oversight of management team evaluation
2001 to Present Work closely with Executive Director in the implementation of a five-year strategic plan. Oversight of management evaluation
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