Board and Staff

Founder Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Charles H. Thompson Frederick D. Harper

EDITORIAL STAFF

Section Editors Editor-in-Chief Section Editors
Ayana Allen-Handy Ivory A. Toldson Donna Y. Ford
Derrick R. Brooms Darrell C. Hucks
Mercedes E. Ebanks
Associate Editor/Business Manager   Administrative Secretary Book/Media Review Editor
Khadeejah A Smith Keyonna Flowers Krystal L. Williams
 Web Site & Data Manager Section Editors Research/Marketing Assistant
  Swagata Pramanik Kmt G. Shockley Serena Bradshaw
Terri N. Watson
Term Expiring 2021
  • Kenneth A. Anderson, Office of the Provost, Howard University

  • Derrick R. Brooms, Sociology & Africana Studies, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

  • Rhonda Erica Baylor, School of Education and Urban Studies, Morgan State University

  • Mercedes E. Ebanks, School of Education, Howard University

  • Donna Y. Ford, College of Education and Human Ecology, Ohio State University

  • Adriel A. Hilton, Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, Southern University at New Orleans

  • Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, Human Services Department, Western Carolina University

  • Jerlando F.L. Jackson, Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Kmt G. Shockley, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, University of Houston

  • Terri N. Watson, Educational Leadership, School of Education, The City College of New York

  • Olga Michele Welch, School of Education, Duquesne University

  • Gary L. Williams, Institute for Intercultural Research, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  • Vivian Yenika-Agbaw, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, The Pennsylvania State University

Term Expiring 2022
  • Michael Cunningham, Department of Psychology, Tulane University

  • Henry T. Frierson, Office of the Provost, University of Florida

  • Hugo Garcia, Department of Educational Psychology, Texas Tech University

  • Brianna P. Lemmons, Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, Baylor University

  • Kofi Lomotey, Human Services Department, Educational Leadership, Western Carolina University

  • Jeton McClinton, Department of Educational Leadership, Jackson State University

  • Brian L. McGowan, School of Education, American University

  • Comfort O. Okpala, College of Education, North Carolina A & T State University

  • Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University

  • Demetrios Spyridakis, California Innovative Career Academy, Sacramento, California

  • Chezare A. Warren, College of Education, Michigan State University

Term Expiring 2023 and 2024
  • Ayana Allen-Handy, School of Education, Drexel University

  • Karen Biraimah, School of Teacher, Learning and Leadership, University of Central Florida

  • LaVar J. Charleston, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Cherrel Miller Dyce, School of Education, Elon University

  • Sydney Freeman, Jr., College of Education, University of Idaho

  • O’Shan D. Gadsden, Department of Psychology, Norfolk State University

  • Lois Harrison-Jones, Professor Emerita, Howard University

  • Darrell C. Hucks, Education Department, Keene State College

  • Tamara Bertrand Jones, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, Florida State University

  • Vinetta C. Jones, Professor Emerita, Howard University

  • Tiffany Jones, Deputy Director, Postsecondary Education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  • Kofi LeNiles, School of Education, Towson University

  • La Tara Osborne Lampkin, Florida Center for Reading Research, Florida State University

  • DeShawn Preston, Program Manager/Research Associate, United Negro College Fund

  • Ashley L. White, Department of Rehabilitation Psychology & Special Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Kimberly A. White-Smith, School of Leadership and Educational Sciences, University of San Diego

  • Eva Zygmunt, Department of Early Childhood, Youth and Family Studies, Ball State University

YOUNG SCHOLARS EDITORIAL BOARD

(Term Expiring 2021) 

  • Tamara McClain (Texas Tech University)

(Term Expiring 2022 and 2023)

  • Serena J. Bradshaw (Howard University)

  • Darnell Leatherwood (University of Chicago),

  • Natasha McClendon (Georgia State University)

  • David McMillon (University of Chicago)

Indefinite term
  • Dawn Williams, Dean, School of Education, Howard University 

  • Faustine C. Jones-Wilson, Editor-in-Chief Emerita 

  • Rc Saravanabhavan, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus