Paula Groves Price, IRT ’95
Congratulations to Paula who has received the Zenobia Hikes Award for an administrator in Higher Education. The award recognizes a woman of color with a distinguished career in higher education demonstrated by scholarly endeavors or administrative and professional accomplishments. Paula is the Dean of the College of Education at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
Marcus Penny, IRT ’11
Penny was a panelist during The Teachers Lounge April event focused on the topic of grading for equity. Marcus is a Boston public school teacher.
Liz Gil, IRT ’11
Gil was selected for the Honorable Mention 2024 AERA Leadership for Social Justice Social Justice Teaching Award. The award commends individuals for their dedication to social justice leadership in their research, teaching, and service. Gil is currently an assistant professor of the Educational Leadership, Administration, and Policy (ELAP) Division of the Fordham Graduate School of Education (GSE).
Jallicia Jolly IRT ’13
Jallicia Jolly, assistant professor of American studies and Black studies and co-chair of the Birth Equity and Justice Massachusetts (BEJMA) coalition at Amherst College, has been awarded a grant from Wagner Foundation’s Good Neighbor Fund to bolster the efforts of the BEJMA coalition. The fund supports organizers and community-based groups working at the intersection of health equity and economic prosperity, particularly work pertaining to historically disenfranchised or geographically isolated communities.
Jolly is also working on their first book with the UC Press: Ill Erotics: Black Caribbean Women & Self-Making in Times of HIV/AIDS. Jolly’s summary of the book: “As we live through two historic pandemics – HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 – and these barbaric attacks on our reproductive freedom, I’m looking forward to writing fierce truths that elevate the lives, labor, embodied experiences & political leadership of Black womxn claiming space to live, love, organize, & exist fully!”
Ain Ealy, IRT ’21
Congratulations to Ain who received her M.Ed. in Community Development and Action from Vanderbilt University this spring. Ain was the recipient of the Community Development and Action Outstanding Student Award, the EDI Student Leadership Award for Professional Students and one of the Unsung Heroines Honorees for 2024. Ain is currently the lead health and wellness navigation specialist for the Tennessee Alliance for Economic Mobility.
Ain Ealy, IRT’21 (center) is shown (L-R) with her advisor Dr. Joseph and Bryant Best, IRT ’18.
Erine Desir, IRT ’22
Desir was accepted into a National Science Foundation (NSF) International Research Experience for Students. Erine will be conducting a research project examining a French-speaking Creole on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe over a seven week period this summer. Erine is pursuing a Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Calvin Bell, IRT ’23
Bell was quoted in an NBC news article. Calvin will be pursuing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Northwestern University this fall.
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