Episodes

Profound words from @profgabrielle on Twitter. This episode explores how we as graduate students specifically find ourselves often overextended. I share a laundry list of the mistakes and oversights that occur over the course of a semester that creates a reactive environment instead of one this is reactive. Need some help with getting yourself organized this semester? Here's a free workbook I put together to help you out. Check it out at blkingradschool.com/goal-oriented

Profound words from @profgabrielle on Twitter. This episode explores how we as graduate students specifically find ourselves often overextended. I share a laundry list of the mistakes and oversights that occur over the course of a semester that creates a reactive environment instead of one this is reactive. Need some help with getting yourself organized this semester? Here's a free workbook I put together to help you out. Check it out at blkingradschool.com/goal-oriented

Christin Haynes is an upcoming 4th year doctoral candidate in Family Science and Human Development at Montclair State University. She holds a B.S in Psychology and MSW from Florida A&M University and research focuses on Black mother/daughter relationship, maternal mental health, and coping mechanisms with gendered racism. An avid cook and food lover, she also focuses on empowering Black families to learn family history through intergenerational cooking with her latest product, Delicious Legacy, ...

Christin Haynes is an upcoming 4th year doctoral candidate in Family Science and Human Development at Montclair State University. She holds a B.S in Psychology and MSW from Florida A&M University and research focuses on Black mother/daughter relationship, maternal mental health, and coping mechanisms with gendered racism. An avid cook and food lover, she also focuses on empowering Black families to learn family history through intergenerational cooking with her latest product, Delicious Legacy, ...

Christin Haynes is an upcoming 4th year doctoral candidate in Family Science and Human Development at Montclair State University. She holds a B.S in Psychology and MSW from Florida A&M University and research focuses on Black mother/daughter relationship, maternal mental health, and coping mechanisms with gendered racism. An avid cook and food lover, she also focuses on empowering Black families to learn family history through intergenerational cooking with her latest product, Delicious Legacy, ...

Part Two of Two: If you missed last week's episode, go back and listen. This week's guest is Dr. Langston Clark, an Assistant Professor at UT-San Antonio. We connected through his group A&T to PhD and Langston been a part of my extended support system ever since. What was supposed to be a typical interview turned into a pretty raw and uncut vent session mixed with lots of sage advice/wisdom from someone who has already been through the process. Listen for a hard dose of reality and of course ad...

Part Two of Two: If you missed last week's episode, go back and listen. This week's guest is Dr. Langston Clark, an Assistant Professor at UT-San Antonio. We connected through his group A&T to PhD and Langston been a part of my extended support system ever since. What was supposed to be a typical interview turned into a pretty raw and uncut vent session mixed with lots of sage advice/wisdom from someone who has already been through the process. Listen for a hard dose of reality and of course ad...

Part Two of Two: If you missed last week's episode, go back and listen. This week's guest is Dr. Langston Clark, an Assistant Professor at UT-San Antonio. We connected through his group A&T to PhD and Langston been a part of my extended support system ever since. What was supposed to be a typical interview turned into a pretty raw and uncut vent session mixed with lots of sage advice/wisdom from someone who has already been through the process. Listen for a hard dose of reality and of course ad...

This week's guest is Dr. Langston Clark, an Assistant Professor at UT-San Antonio. We connected through his group A&T to PhD and Langston been a part of my extended support system ever since. What was supposed to be a typical interview turned into a pretty raw and uncut vent session mixed with lots of sage advice/wisdom from someone who has already been through the process. Listen for a hard dose of reality and of course advice and inspiration to keep pushing. A little more about Langston: Lang...

This week's guest is Dr. Langston Clark, an Assistant Professor at UT-San Antonio. We connected through his group A&T to PhD and Langston been a part of my extended support system ever since. What was supposed to be a typical interview turned into a pretty raw and uncut vent session mixed with lots of sage advice/wisdom from someone who has already been through the process. Listen for a hard dose of reality and of course advice and inspiration to keep pushing. A little more about Langston: Lang...

This week's guest is Dr. Langston Clark, an Assistant Professor at UT-San Antonio. We connected through his group A&T to PhD and Langston been a part of my extended support system ever since. What was supposed to be a typical interview turned into a pretty raw and uncut vent session mixed with lots of sage advice/wisdom from someone who has already been through the process. Listen for a hard dose of reality and of course advice and inspiration to keep pushing. A little more about Langston: Lang...

This week I had the pleasure to chat with Gabriell! She is starting her PhD in the fall, and like so many others incoming graduate students she had to make a lot of decisions while the world is experiencing a pandemics and uprisings. She reached out to me to and we talked about her thought process as she made plans for starting her PhD in the fall. She shares how she thought through the decisions she had available: continue working and pursue the PhD part-time or go to grad school full-time. We...

This week I had the pleasure to chat with Gabriell! She is starting her PhD in the fall, and like so many others incoming graduate students she had to make a lot of decisions while the world is experiencing a pandemics and uprisings. She reached out to me to and we talked about her thought process as she made plans for starting her PhD in the fall. She shares how she thought through the decisions she had available: continue working and pursue the PhD part-time or go to grad school full-time. We...

This week I had the pleasure to chat with Gabriell! She is starting her PhD in the fall, and like so many others incoming graduate students she had to make a lot of decisions while the world is experiencing a pandemics and uprisings. She reached out to me to and we talked about her thought process as she made plans for starting her PhD in the fall. She shares how she thought through the decisions she had available: continue working and pursue the PhD part-time or go to grad school full-time. We...

Whew, this academic year was something else. Wrapping up classes, manuscript rejections, manuscript revisions, one hard

Whew, this academic year was something else. Wrapping up classes, manuscript rejections, manuscript revisions, one hard

Whew, this academic year was something else. Wrapping up classes, manuscript rejections, manuscript revisions, one hard

Zach is a second year Graphic Design MFA student at Iowa State University. His thesis is investigating the barriers and pain points associated with being a Black graphic art/graphic design student. We talk about the work he does to decolonize design in his courses and with his colleagues. His story gives us insight and inspiration to keep fighting for better academic institutions for ourselves and future scholars. It's a candid conversation and timely with one (of many) ways to keep the momentum...

Zach is a second year Graphic Design MFA student at Iowa State University. His thesis is investigating the barriers and pain points associated with being a Black graphic art/graphic design student. We talk about the work he does to decolonize design in his courses and with his colleagues. His story gives us insight and inspiration to keep fighting for better academic institutions for ourselves and future scholars. It's a candid conversation and timely with one (of many) ways to keep the momentum...

Zach is a second year Graphic Design MFA student at Iowa State University. His thesis is investigating the barriers and pain points associated with being a Black graphic art/graphic design student. We talk about the work he does to decolonize design in his courses and with his colleagues. His story gives us insight and inspiration to keep fighting for better academic institutions for ourselves and future scholars. It's a candid conversation and timely with one (of many) ways to keep the momentum...

Nicole Vick has spent the last fifteen years providing tools and strategies to stakeholders, community-based organizations, students, and residents to improve health and prevent disease in some of Los Angeles County’s most underserved communities. She's built a life of purpose as a public health professional, businesswoman and now author. On this episode we talk about her life and she shares both the heartbreaking pain and the extraordinary triumphs that led her to advocacy and social justice w...

Nicole Vick has spent the last fifteen years providing tools and strategies to stakeholders, community-based organizations, students, and residents to improve health and prevent disease in some of Los Angeles County’s most underserved communities. She's built a life of purpose as a public health professional, businesswoman and now author. On this episode we talk about her life and she shares both the heartbreaking pain and the extraordinary triumphs that led her to advocacy and social justice w...

Nicole Vick has spent the last fifteen years providing tools and strategies to stakeholders, community-based organizations, students, and residents to improve health and prevent disease in some of Los Angeles County’s most underserved communities. She's built a life of purpose as a public health professional, businesswoman and now author. On this episode we talk about her life and she shares both the heartbreaking pain and the extraordinary triumphs that led her to advocacy and social justice w...

On Sunday I went on IG live with Vanessa (@nessiethegreat94 on Instagram) a UMN PhD student who has been provided nearly $15,000 worth of supplies to protesters and those in need in Minneapolis. We talk about ways that graduate students can involved locally, responding to support from non-Black folk and more. This is mostly a conversation, recording a moment in what we hope— and some feel—is the beginning of some real concrete progress in America.