Episodes

Dr. Kelechi Ibe-Lamberts (@blacktransnational_) is a tenure track assistant professor in community health at State University of New York (SUNY) Cortland. He received all his degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, completing his Ph.D

Destenie Nock finished her PhD in Industrial Engineering in 2019 from UMass Amherst and is the first Black woman to join the faculty for the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. Her research focuses primarily on energy planning, decision analysis, a

Unless you were living under a rock, you probably heard about Dr. Mareena Robinson Snowden who went viral as the FIRST Black Women to get her PhD in Nuclear Engineering from MIT. On this week's episode she talks about her life and career after that level

Time flies when you're having fun! Blk + In Grad School Turns TWO so Allanté reflects on what she's learned about the podcasting business, life and of course, grad school! Hear favorite clips from the last year that have kept it real or brought insight a

Dr. Williams was a model graduate student but in the last two years of her doctoral program felt that academia would not be the space allow her to use her gifts and talents in a way that felt good to her soul. She shares how she boldly set aside the inte

This week Allanté gets transparent about some of her fears as the time is coming to move into the next phase. How do you deal with fear about the future? Fear about the quality of the relationships in your network? Fear about work and research? Fear ab

Every grad student is inundated work. Readings, homework, classes, meetings can begin to feel like a constant state of doing the most. Then conversations with fellow grad students IRL and online follow suit with seeing as everyone is crazy busy, but after

Allanté shares her personal statement for her Ph.D. application. There's some wins and some losses but as always there's a lesson. Mentioned during the show: Episode 12: How Did I get Here? My grad school story. Medium Article - What is Blk + in Grad Sc

Working towards becoming a better writer, Allanté attempted to write 100 days and shares how she did it. Following the exercises in Patricia Goodson's Becoming an Academic Writer (reviewed in the last episode, check out Ep. 81) Allanté Increased her average writing time amongst other things. There was a lot to gain in terms of establishing a writing practice, improving writing and tracking the progress. Lastly, Allanté shares two essential tools to help during the writing process. Mentioned dur...

In Episode 54: 2018 The Recap Allanté shared her goals for the next year and from one of those goals came a necessity to sharpen her writing skills. With her goal in mind and a recommendation on Instagram from @higheredincolor she decided to read Becoming an Academic Writer by Dr. Patricia Goodson. On this episode, Allanté gives her opinion on the book, the best parts of the book, how to use it and some of the new habits she has developed as a result of reading it. Blog Post Book Review by Dr. ...

In Episode 54: 2018 The Recap Allanté shared her goals for the next year and from one of those goals came a necessity to sharpen her writing skills. With her goal in mind and a recommendation on Instagram from @higheredincolor she decided to read Becomin

In Episode 54: 2018 The Recap Allanté shared her goals for the next year and from one of those goals came a necessity to sharpen her writing skills. With her goal in mind and a recommendation on Instagram from @higheredincolor she decided to read Becoming an Academic Writer by Dr. Patricia Goodson. On this episode, Allanté gives her opinion on the book, the best parts of the book, how to use it and some of the new habits she has developed as a result of reading it. Blog Post Book Review by Dr. ...

In Episode 54: 2018 The Recap Allanté shared her goals for the next year and from one of those goals came a necessity to sharpen her writing skills. With her goal in mind and a recommendation on Instagram from @higheredincolor she decided to read Becomin

In Episode 54: 2018 The Recap Allanté shared her goals for the next year and from one of those goals came a necessity to sharpen her writing skills. With her goal in mind and a recommendation on Instagram from @higheredincolor she decided to read Becoming an Academic Writer by Dr. Patricia Goodson. On this episode, Allanté gives her opinion on the book, the best parts of the book, how to use it and some of the new habits she has developed as a result of reading it. Blog Post Book Review by Dr. ...

In Episode 54: 2018 The Recap Allanté shared her goals for the next year and from one of those goals came a necessity to sharpen her writing skills. With her goal in mind and a recommendation on Instagram from @higheredincolor she decided to read Becomin

This week's guest is Allanté's very best friend of 15+ years, Ashley!! Ashley has always had a heart and passion for community where her path led her to a career in non-profit. After she finished undergrad at Michigan State University, she jumped right into a Master's degree in Educational Psychology to bolster her non-profit career trajectory. In the first few years in the sector, Ashley was searching for opportunities to move up and in her searches she'd often see librarian openings. After a ...

This week's guest is Allanté's very best friend of 15+ years, Ashley!! Ashley has always had a heart and passion for community where her path led her to a career in non-profit. After she finished undergrad at Michigan State University, she jumped right into a Master's degree in Educational Psychology to bolster her non-profit career trajectory. In the first few years in the sector, Ashley was searching for opportunities to move up and in her searches she'd often see librarian openings. After a ...

This week's guest is Allanté's very best friend of 15+ years, Ashley!! Ashley has always had a heart and passion for community where her path led her to a career in non-profit. After she finished undergrad at Michigan State University, she jumped right into a Master's degree in Educational Psychology to bolster her non-profit career trajectory. In the first few years in the sector, Ashley was searching for opportunities to move up and in her searches she'd often see librarian openings. After a ...

This week's episode is a throwback! Allanté rewinds back 50 episodes to episode 29 when she finished up her first year and also created her first week-by-week action plan! Inspired by Side Hustle Pro's Goal Getter Action Plan, Allanté shares how she organized her plan as a graduate student (instead of an entrepreneur). She also shares plenty resources you can try to explore for putting together a 12-week plan to accomplish your goals! Mentioned During The Episode: If you want to get access to ...

This week's episode is a throwback! Allanté rewinds back 50 episodes to episode 29 when she finished up her first year and also created her first week-by-week action plan! Inspired by Side Hustle Pro's Goal Getter Action Plan, Allanté shares how she organized her plan as a graduate student (instead of an entrepreneur). She also shares plenty resources you can try to explore for putting together a 12-week plan to accomplish your goals! Mentioned During The Episode: If you want to get access to ...

This week's episode is a throwback! Allanté rewinds back 50 episodes to episode 29 when she finished up her first year and also created her first week-by-week action plan! Inspired by Side Hustle Pro's Goal Getter Action Plan, Allanté shares how she organized her plan as a graduate student (instead of an entrepreneur). She also shares plenty resources you can try to explore for putting together a 12-week plan to accomplish your goals! Mentioned During The Episode: If you want to get access to ...

"I know there's always rooting before blossoming." - Tracy G. This affirmation is a whole word, which inspired this week's episode on setting your goals. If you're a scholar, rooting is the planning and blossoming is the goal achieved. That goal could be a paper, a research project, building your network, etc. Setting a goal in our heads may be as easy as writing that goal down however the process of actualizing the goal can be frustrating and confusing without some careful considerations taken...

"I know there's always rooting before blossoming." - Tracy G. This affirmation is a whole word, which inspired this week's episode on setting your goals. If you're a scholar, rooting is the planning and blossoming is the goal achieved. That goal could be a paper, a research project, building your network, etc. Setting a goal in our heads may be as easy as writing that goal down however the process of actualizing the goal can be frustrating and confusing without some careful considerations taken...

"I know there's always rooting before blossoming." - Tracy G. This affirmation is a whole word, which inspired this week's episode on setting your goals. If you're a scholar, rooting is the planning and blossoming is the goal achieved. That goal could be a paper, a research project, building your network, etc. Setting a goal in our heads may be as easy as writing that goal down however the process of actualizing the goal can be frustrating and confusing without some careful considerations taken...