Our Guest, Dr. Jennifer Young Wallace, is a tenured Associate Professor/Coordinator of the. Doctoral Program-Educational Leadership for the College of Education at Jackson State University, a Tier II research university, where she presently serves as JSU Faculty Senate President.

Dr. Wallace served as national President 2025-2026 for the Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), making history as the first president who is an alumnus of and employed at an HBCU. She is the 5th African American president in the 105-year history of theorganization. She travels over the United States as keynote speaker for national conferences, baccalaureate exercises, organizations’ initiatives and others.

She will be presenting her research on Critical Race Theory in America in Dublin, Ireland, representing the United States as ATE President.

Wallace is the president of the Capital Area Sunset Rotary Club, where she is a charter member, and is having her second round as president. She is a product of Holmes County and graduated from SV Marshall High School in 1987 as Valedictorian.

Your Host: ⁠⁠Jacob Easley II, PhD, PMP⁠⁠

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Greeting: Nicholas Hartlep

Research Assistant: Emma Worthington

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Our Guest, Dr. Larry J. Walker, is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Program Coordinator at the University of Central Florida. Previously, he held faculty appointments at Howard University and Loyola University Maryland. His research focused on leadership, policy, and racism. In addition, he served as the Legislative Director for former Congressman Major R. Owens and selected as a Congressional Fellow with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.

Dr. Walker is a political commentator who appears regularly on Roland Martin Unfiltered and Fox 35 Orlando. He has also appeared on Live NOW from Fox, Fox Business among other national and regional platforms.

Your Host: ⁠⁠Jacob Easley II, PhD, PMP⁠⁠

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Greeting: Nicholas Hartlep

Research Assistant: Emma Worthington

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Our Guest, Awad Ibrahim, is full professor, Vice-Provost, Equity, Diversity and Inclusive Excellence and holder of the Air Canada Professorship on Anti-Racism. He is a curriculum theorist with special interest in economy of hospitality (Derrida), cultural studies, Hip-Hop, youth and Black popular culture, social foundations (i.e., philosophy, history and sociology of education), social justice and community service learning, diasporic and continental African identities, ethnography and applied linguistics. With more than 100 publications, he has researched and published widely in these areas. Professor Ibrahim obtained his PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE), and has been with the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa since 2007. Before that, he taught at Bowling Green State University in Ohio (U.S.).

His immediate projects involve the Black experience on Canadian university campuses, equity policy in Ontario and the daily struggle of 'becoming a citizen' in Canada. Among his most recent books, Disruptive learning narrative framework: Analyzing race, power and privilege in post-secondary international service learning (2023); Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian academy: Teaching, learning, and researching while Black (2022); Black immigrants in North America: Essays on race, immigration, identity, language, Hip-Hop, pedagogy, and the politics of becoming Black (2022); Black immigrants in the United States: Essays on the politics of race, language, and voice (2020).

For high school students, he is known as Dr. Dre.

In this episode he poses the question, “Why was it so easy for Donald Trump to erase DEI policy with the stroke of a pen?”

Your Host: ⁠⁠Jacob Easley II, PhD,PMP⁠⁠

Co-Host: Dr. Pinkie Mthembu

Sponsor: Patriox oxygenated water. Drinking Patriox helps oxygenate the body, promoting overall health, energy, and vitality. Receive a 10% discount on your next purchase with the code EDUPXE.

Resources:

• EDUP The Experience
• Culture Race and Intersectionality Network
• International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI)

Greeting: Nicholas Hartlep

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