This week's conversation goes into the pedagogue of higher Ed, and what needs to happen to decolonize the current curriculum.
Our Guests this week are Dr. Rachel Hastings & Dr. Kamara Taylor.
Dr. Rachel N. Hastings (Doc) is the founder of DocED, a critical, creative communication company that provides consulting on digital courses, curriculums and campaigns. Her DiGiT marketing team has worked on promotional outreach campaigns for Forte Labs and their app against domestic violence, Hoops To End Abuse; MiraCosta College’s First In the Fam,’ But Not Alone career readiness conference for first-generation students; the San Diego Chapter of the American Association of Women in Community College (SDC-AAWCC) and their Let’s Be Notorious Campaign; and the North County Higher Education Alliance (NCHEA)’s Careers During COVID: The Digital Turn conference. Over the past eight years, Dr. Hastings has produced a number of digital literacy projects with incarcerated individuals at Folsom State Prison, as well produced innovative virtual conferences centered in anti-blackness, white allyship and racial equity in higher education. Her work is published in the ASCCC Rostrum, Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Liminalities, Women & Language, Radical Philosophy Review and the Nigerian Guardian. Dr. Hastings’ also serves as a full-time Professor of Communication at MiraCosta College who centers her expertise on the use of digital communication in Public Speaking, Mass Communication, Interpersonal Relationships and Narrative Performance for personal growth, social advocacy, and communal change.
Dr. Kamara Taylor
A Chicago Illinois Native is a Neuropsychologist with a Ph.D. in cognitive and instructional Psychology , Master’s degree in Political Science and Clinical Psychology, and Currently is working on her EDD in educational leadership. Dr. Taylor Continues to Empower, Encourage, and motivate scholars in the classroom. With civic engagements, workshops, symposiums as well as books. As well as through her non for profit SHE-IS.