Brittney Yancy, IRT ’03
Brittney holds a masters degree in U.S. History and earned a Ph.D. in U.S. History last year from the University of Connecticut. Brittney is currently an Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at Illinois College.
Heather Moore Roberson, IRT ’07
Heather has been appointed to serve on the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® Great Lakes Regional Program Committee under the leadership of Gwendolyn L. Kirtley, Great Lakes Regional Director, and Jackie Davis-Betserai, Great Lakes Regional Program Chairman. Heather is currently the dean of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Allegheny College.
J.T. Roane, IRT ‘08
Roane was named term chair for the 2022-2023 cohort at Rutgers University where he is an assistant professor of Global Racial Justice, Africana Studies and Geography.
Elizabeth Gill, IRT ‘11
Gill is currently an assistant professor in Educational Leadership, Administration & Policy at Fordham University. She has been working on an initiative with a department colleague on the article, “GSE Faculty Collaborate with Students and Alumni to Revise Course Syllabi with an Anti-Racist Focus.”
Juliana (JuJu) Wong, IRT ’15
JuJu is a higher education consultant and a diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging (DEIB) strategist that integrates her ethnic studies and equity lens to build programs and organizations. She received her M.Ed. in Student Affairs at the University of Maryland, College Park. Connect with Juju and learn more.
Christian Walkes, IRT ‘17
Christian accepted a position at the Museum of African American History as the associate director of Education and Interpretation. Walkes leads and designs all programming at the Boston and Nantucket sites of the Museum.
Joseph Baez, IRT ‘18
Joseph successfully defended his dissertation proposal this December tentatively titled “‘Blessed Are the Hot, Fat Girls’: The Aesthetics of Black, Brown, Fat Femme-ininity” that explored how fat women and femmes of color represent themselves in response to racist, misogynistic, fatphobic stigma through performance art. Baez is currently in the American Studies program at George Washington University.
Brandy Jones, IRT ’17 and Jarell Skinner-Roy, IRT ’19 contributed to an opinion piece in Diverse Issues in Higher Education entitled, “Why HBCUs Need Campus Abolition (And The Rest of Y’all Too).” Jones and Skinner-Roy are higher education doctoral students and research associates at the University of Michigan.
George Anthony Pratt, IRT ‘22
George was accepted to the Marshall Scholarship to pursue his MPhil at the University of Oxford.
Ain Ealey, IRT ’22 has been named the Lead Health and Wellness Navigation Specialist at the Martha O’Bryan Center in Nashville, TN, which also will serve as her practicum experience. Ain is in her second semester of the Community Development in Action Master’s program at Vanderbilt University and will devote at least 300 hours to her practicum internship as part of her Master’s degree curriculum.
Congratulations to IRT recipients of the
2022 Ford Foundation Fellowships Scholar Awards
Pre-Doctoral Competition
Miguel Giron, IRT ’19
Demontea Thompson, IRT ’19
Darion Wallace, IRT ’19
Dissertation Competition
Elena Rosario, IRT ’14
Post Doctoral Competition
Jallicia Jolly, IRT ’13
Honorable Mention Awardees
Maya Doig-Acuna, IRT ’18; Katherine Campbell Ponds, IRT ’19; Seanna Viechweg, IRT ’19; Christian Walkes, IRT ’17; Hector Peralta, IRT ‘ 15; Susana Sepulveda, IRT ’13
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