In our recurring 10 Questions series, the Neag School catches up with students, alumni, faculty, and others throughout the year to glimpse their Neag School experience and current career, research, or community activities.
A new Neag School of Education faculty member, Sakeena Everett is an avid literacy advocate and expert in urban education, teacher education, and literacy education. Her work centers on the intersectionalities of race, gender, socioeconomic class, and justice as a praxis in education. Her research and teaching focus on the significant literacy development of Black male students in elementary and secondary schools, literacy teacher preparation, culturally sustaining pedagogies, and transformative, humanizing, and decolonizing research methods in education. Her research agenda recently expanded to investigate and support grief among educators, mainly supporting grieving Black women K-12 educators and university faculty.
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