@alsmith_01

Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University| 2022 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow| Black Girlhood Scholar| Black Feminist| Chicagoan| DST 🔺| Loves to 🛼

 Columbus, OH
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Joined September 2014
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I’m extremely happy to share that I signed a contract for my first book tentatively titled, (Un)Schooling Black Girls: Navigating Suburbia, Anti-Black-Girl Violence, and Mechanisms of School Survival with @UNC_Press & I get to work with the incredible @dawnd ! #BlackGirlhood
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The Black Studies Podcast@blstpodcast30 Jul 2025
Our 150th episode! A fantastic listen, Ashley talks with Patrice Douglass about gender, slavery, and the long horizon of racial violence. Thoughtful and compelling conversation, here or at your preferred stream: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

Patrice D. Douglass - Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · July 30, 2025 · 1h 1m

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New publication alert! Loved dreaming this work up alongside my sistas!! #BlackGirlhoodStudies
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So extremely happy for you Dr. Lesure!!! Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉🎉 So honored to know you friend & to witness this moment!! 💜
Jacques P. Lesure, Ph.D@jp_lesure3 May 2024
I officially defended my dissertation, Making Extraordinary Men: Race Leadership Education in a Nonprofit Collegiate Black Male Initiative. I am grateful to my committee for their support. Next stop: Visiting Assistant Professor of Education at Brown University!
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BreakThrough News
@BTnewsroom25 Apr 2024
Students launched an encampment for Gaza at Ohio State University — the third largest university in the country. After police swept the camp this morning, students and community have returned to protest in full force.
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swm@sheathescholar26 Apr 2024
this is how the cops are preparing to engage with peaceful #OhioState protesters on South Oval.
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swm@sheathescholar26 Apr 2024
new announcement from cops on South Oval: disperse immediately or get arrested. Protesters have tightened their circle and are chanting, “long live Palestine” and “we are the revolution” loudly. #OhioState @SJPOSU
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I hope she saved her own life with the resignation.
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Yesterday was such a beautiful day! The love & support from Black women keeps me going & grounded. So grateful! Love yall!! 🥰💜💜💜
DoctaE@DoctaE18 Dec 2023
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@alsmith_01 what a brilliant day experiencing you and Amy Meredith Cox! Just beautiful. Your book is going to help so many ppl. My heart and mind r still reverberating. I look way up to you both❤️❤️🌺 #BlackWomenScholars #Blackgirlhood #Unschooling
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philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_4 Nov 2023
NOW: Thousands call for a ceasefire in Gaza at a rally in Washington, DC 🎥 @BenjAlvarez1
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Barbara Ransby@BarbaraRansby14 Oct 2023
70 killed by Israeli rockets while fleeing Gaza AS INSTRUCTED... reports CNN. Rafah crossing (1 of 2 ways out) w/ Egypt supposed to be open & is not. Israel has cut off fuel, water and food. This is murder. Who could justify this?!!
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Ashok Kumar
@comrade_kumar_13 Oct 2023
Marc Lamont Hill puts every interviewer to shame by forcing Israels former Foreign Minister to admit that Israel is deliberately starving and bombing a captive civilian population to get what they want. A War Crime. Not one British journalist has done this
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US Open Tennis
@usopen9 Sep 2023
COCO. JUST. DID. THAT. 👏
Graphic: Coco Gauff defeats Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, in the US Open Women's Singles Final.

ALT Graphic: Coco Gauff defeats Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-3, 6-2, in the US Open Women's Singles Final.

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ESPN
@espn8 Sep 2023
COCO GAUFF IS ONTO HER FIRST #USOpen FINAL‼️
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Taryrn T.C. Brown, Ph.D.@doc_b_phD2 Aug 2023
Looking into PhD programs and interested in research in Black Feminisms and Black Girlhoods in Education? Come study with me! I am recruiting a PhD student beginning Fall 2024! Reach out for more information - – at Florida, USA
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Courtney Mauldin-Jones@DrCourt_Mauldin20 Jul 2023
Excited to share that I'll be continuing to create meaningful literacy spaces for our youth! Very grateful to @humanitiesny for their support and recognition of the value in this work. #BlackGirlSpaces #YouthEmpowerment #makerspaces #HumanitiesNewYork
Syracuse University School of Education@SUSchoolofEd20 Jul 2023
Prof. @DrCourt_Mauldin has received a grant from @humanitiesny for a "new project centering Black girls’ stories by creating space for intracommunal dialogue, guided artmaking, and the opportunity for girls to curate an exhibition that showcases their lived experiences."
professor courtney mauldin holding books and and smiling into the camera

ALT professor courtney mauldin holding books and and smiling into the camera

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gene mcadoo@genemcadooo23 Jun 2023
Checkout @Keara_Williams_ @TyroneCHoward and I’s new article in Urban Ed!We outline how anti-blackness inflicts racial trauma on Black youth and make recommendations for how teachers and teacher educators can mitigate/disrupt these deleterious consequences journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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act iii Updates
@B7Album26 May 2023
Blue Ivy eating at the #RENAISSANCEWorldTour
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