I am a critical scholar who is currently an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Education program in the Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science and Humanities at NYU. Born in Accra, GH and raised in the Bronx, NY, I conduct research on urban education, race and ethnicity, Africana/African diaspora studies, immigrant youth education, postcolonial theory, anti-Blackness and ethnography. Specifically, my work centers the racialization of Black immigrant students in urban schools, and the impact of Africanness and Blackness on their educational experiences and academic achievement. I have contributed to Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education (Routledge Press, 2018) and Erasing Invisibility, Inequity, and Social Injustice of Africans in the Diaspora and the Continent (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017).
I hold a Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I also hold an M.S.Ed. in Education, Culture & Society from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in Sociology of Education from New York University, and a B.A. in Sociology from SUNY-Geneseo.