Wholeness is no trifling matter": Wellness as Community Care
Cookies with the Collective
February 18th — 10am
Black Cultural Center, Red Gym
Dr. Marcelle Haddix is the dean of UW–Madison’s No. 1 ranked School of Education. During her tenure as dean, Haddix has championed a “One School” vision that unites the School’s 10 departments across the arts, education, and health with a shared commitment to collaboration, growth, and community engagement. Haddix is a leading scholar in literacy and teacher education, with a particular focus on the experiences of students and teachers of color. Her award-winning book is titled,
“Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education: Teachers Like Me.”
Prior to arriving at UW–Madison, Dean Haddix spent 16 years in numerous leadership positions at Syracuse University, including most recently as associate provost for strategic initiatives. She is passionate about art, theater, and dance, and oversaw campuswide arts and humanities affiliates and programs during her tenure at Syracuse University. She is also a 500-hour-trained yoga instructor and reproductive health doula.
She received her bachelor’s degree from Drake University, master’s degree from Cardinal Stritch University, and doctoral degree from Boston College.
Building the ‘Third University’: Rehearsing Accountability, Relationality, and Radical Hope in the Between Time
Cookies with the Collective
March 18th — 10am
Black Cultural Center, Red Gym
Dr. Aireale J. Rodgers is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and PI of the Racialization in Learning Environments (RILE) Collective research team. A learning scientist of higher education, she employs qualitative techniques to expose the mundane ways in which teaching and learning in U.S. postsecondary institutions socializes students to perpetuate ideological stances, material practices, and interpersonal arrangements that reify a racial capitalist order. Dr. Rodgers holds a B.S. in Social Policy and an M.A. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Urban Education Policy (with a concentration in higher education) from the University of Southern California.
University Roundtable: The SoulFolk Collective: Black Study as Freedom Practice
In this roundtable talk, members of The SoulFolk Collective will share key findings from their community-based oral history project about the spaces that Black Madison residents reported as Black-affirming. They will explore how a Black geographies theoretical framework allows them to see how Black folks have co-constructed space to have meaning and a sense of belonging in Madison, revealing the freedom practices and spatial knowledge that challenge dominant narratives of exclusion and erasure. We will end with a look forward to our work designing the SoulFolk Saturday school, a program for high school students in the spirit of the Freedom School movement.
The Impact of Improvisational Playfulness
Cookies with the Collective
April 15th — 10am
Black Cultural Center, Red Gym
Dr. Amy Lewis is the daughter of Jayne McShann Lewis and Bennie Lewis and is the granddaughter of Frances McShann Shelton and jazz pianist Jay McShann.
Her research is focused on systemic oppression, equity, and racism in music education. As a public music teacher, she taught K-1, 6-8 general music, beginning band, middle school choir, and jazz band in the Chicagoland suburbs. She received the 2022 Compass Visionary Award, the 2019 Black Faculty, Staff, and Administrators Association Emerging Leader Award, and was also named the 2015 Illinois Education Association Teacher of the Year.
She earned her B.M.E. degree from DePaul University, M.A. from Concordia University, and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. Her work is published in The Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education; Action, Criticism, & Theory in Music Education; Journal of Historical Research in Music Education; and Michigan Music Educator Journal. Additionally, Lewis is on the editorial board of the Research and Issues in Music Education and serves on the board of the Madison Jazz Society.
Sable Musings: The Creative Practice of Black Study
Join poet and professor Nate Marshall for an interactive workshop, “Sable Musings: The Creative Practice of Black Study”, on December 8th from 2-3pm in the Black Cultural Center. This workshop, a part of our ongoing series, Cookies with the Collective, will discuss how to bring poetics into academic writing.
No RSVP necessary. Treats and drinks provided!
Solidarity Forever: Coalition Building with Communities in Community Engaged Research — Cookies with the Collective
Dr. Naomi Mae W. (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As an activist and community organizer for over 15 years, Dr. Mae’s current work centers youth organizers of color as they build multiracial-multiethnic coalitions to actualize educational justice in under-resourced urban districts. In studying the ecology of youth organizing (including intergenerational CBOs, youth workers, community partnerships, etc.), Mae researches how the praxis of youth organizing can serve as an exemplar of meaningful critical civic education and engagement. She engages community-based research methods, action research, and critical ethnography while leveraging youth resistance and relational race theories to inform praxis and actualize greater justice and solidarity in collaboration with young people and communities.
Cookies with the Collective
Meet research fellows of The SoulFolk Collective, inquire after our research, and share a treat with our community during Cookies with the Collective. Come learn about Black geographies with The SoulFolk Collective and Dr. Rachel Elizabeth Williams, an Assistant Professor in the Educational Policy Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Dr. Williams’ interdisciplinary research brings together Black studies and critical geography with education policy to examine race, place, and political economy in the U.S. metropolitan South. Her research agenda explores: 1) the impact of charter schools and state takeover on local democratic governance in majority Black contexts; 2) the relationship between education, capital, and the spatial organization of metropolitan landscapes and 3) Black intra-racial politics, representation, and spatial imaginaries within and beyond geographies of racial capitalism.