EDUCATION

University of San Francisco                                                   
EdD, International & Multicultural Education. 4.0 [Racial Justice Concentration]
Dissertation [From Creamy Crack To Locs: The Oppression And Liberation Of Black Women Educators Through Black Hair Identity]
San Francisco, CA | 2024

Saint Mary’s College of CA                                                   
MA, Master’s in Teaching. 3.9
Thesis [Culturally Responsive Literacy Through Technology]
Moraga, CA | 2012

Saint Mary’s College of CA
BA. Major GPA 3.9. Overall 3.4 [Major: Sociology; Minor: Ethnic Studies & English]
Moraga, CA | 2007

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Research Interests: Black Feminist Thought, Endarkened Feminist Epistemology, Intersectionality, Critical Pedagogy, Black Hair Identity, Black Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Theory in Education

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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Adjunct Lecturer; Saint Mary’s College of CA; Kalmanovitz School of Education 

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HONORS AND AWARDS

• Critical Educators For Social Justice Scholar Activist Award [Finalist]
  Finalist for showing significant contributions to the collective pursuit of educational justice through research and scholarship collaboration(s), developed and sustained work and relationships with community, and evidence of critical advocacy research productivity.

• Social Justice Scholarship
  Awarded for commitment to social justice 

• International and Multicultural Education Scholarship
  Awarded for work as a Doctoral student 

• Alpha Kappa Delta Honor Society
  Inducted for outstanding academic achievement in the Sociology department 

• Humanitarian Award
  Awarded for community work'

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FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIPS

• Research Assistant to Dr. Aaminah Norris | California State University Sacramento

  • (Funded by the National Science Foundation)

• Perez Research Fellowship

  • The Perez Research Fellowship is a one-year fellowship where I participate in a range of evaluation, capacity building, and user research projects. My projects are with the Apollo Theater, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, and the Health Path ER Tech program using applied research in pursuit of more equitable outcomes for communities of color ($6,000).

• International & Multicultural Education Fellows Award

  • Awarded for a collective project: Transformative Pedagogy, Black Tropes in Film ($2,500).

• Fellowship for African Students

  • The Fellowship for African Students was established in honor of Fr. Martin Muruli for students from African countries currently enrolled in a School of Education graduate program ($4,140).

• International and Multicultural Education Community Fellowship

  • Awarded to students for creating community-based initiatives. My work focused on providing Black-centered education to students ($1,500).

• Centering Black Women Educators in Teaching and Learning Fellowship,

  • Awarded to educators who study the contributions and impact of Black Women educators ($1,000). 

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GRANTS

• National Science Foundation

  • As part of the research team with principal investigator Dr. Aaminah Norris, we were granted funding for international research in Italy, focused on the collaboration between Girl Power By Design and the Managing Identities Project ($100,000 to Girl Power). 

• Racial Justice Education

  • Grant awarded to provide stipends for research participants in my dissertation healing circles ($1500).

• Center for Humanizing Education and Research Freedom Dreaming mini-grant

  • Funding for our proposal, Black Educology Mixtape Journal Volume II ($5000)

• School of Education USF

  • Awarded to produce the Black Educology Journal ($15,000).

• Abolitionist Teaching Network

  • ATN Educator Grant awarded for work that furthers abolitionist education ($750).

• Center for Humanizing Education and Research

  • Awarded the Freedom Dreaming mini-grant for producing the Black Educology journal ($5,000).

• 6+You Grant

  • Awarded a grant from the 6+You Initiative for our project, “Bad Taste in Movies” seeking to humanize the representation of Black people in film ($1000).

• National Science Foundation

  • Three-year grant to research ways to increase representation for Black and Latina/x girls in STEM. As part of the Girl Power research team working to bridge the gap between historically excluded students and STEM through curriculum development, I assisted with coding and organization of participant responses to develop major themes within the data around Black women educators. Lead writer on a paper rooted in this qualitative data. Research funded by the National Science Foundation ($1 Million to Girl Power).

• 6+You Grant

  • Granted for launching our pilot project (Black Educology) to address racism in education ($2500).

• The Miner Anderson Family Foundation

  • Funding was awarded for community organizing ($400).

• Abolitionist Teaching Network Grant

  • Granted to educators who strive to disrupt inequalities and injustice within their schools, communities, or both. Received for work with my nonprofit organization Making Us Matter ($2000 to Making Us Matter).

• Teach for Justice Grant

  • Awarded to create two units rooted in social justice ($1000). ​

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PUBLICATIONS

Journal Publications (Peer-Reviewed)

1. Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. (2024). We Will Not Walk Through Rotten Orchards: Abolition and (Re) nourishing the Soil of Black Communities Through Insulated Praxis in Education. Equity & Excellence in Education, 1-15. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10665684.2023.2297211 

2. Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E., Carter, A., & Morton, N. (2022). “Bad taste in movies”: hacking films as a site of praxis for black embodiment. Black Educology Mixtape" Journal", 1(1), 2.

3. Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E., Carter, A., Morton, N., Jenkins, G., & Davis, B. A. (2022). The cypher. Black Educology Mixtape" Journal", 1(1), 1.

4. Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E., & Jenkins, G. (2021). Making us matter & the work of spirit revival. International Journal of Human Rights Education, 5(1), 12.

Journal Papers Under Review

1. Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. (2024). “We Are Transformers: On Being Black, Women, and Pedagogues” Forthcoming (2023) with Equity, Excellence, and Education

2. Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E. (2024). “Black Women: 4C Methodology” In progress for: Epistemic Collaging And Home-Made Methodologies (Book Chapter in Crafting Homeplace in the Academic Borderlands) Forthcoming from Teachers College Press

3. Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E., Norris, A., Cohen, A., Elsinbawi, M., Paley, M. “Femmenoir Pedagogy: Rescripting the Reproduction of Black Women’s Marginalization in Education” Forthcoming (2023) with Race, Ethnicity, and Education 

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SELECT PRESENTATIONS

• Paper Presentation, Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E.,“(Re)storative (re)membering: exploring Black women educators, Black hair, and collective (re)membering” American Educational Research Association | Division K - Section 08: Teachers’ Lives, Identities, and Journeys

• Roundtable Presentation, Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E.,“The 4C methodology: Healing centered research” American Educational Research Association | Division D - Section 3: Qualitative Research Methods

• Roundtable Presentation, Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E.,“I am my hair: a black woman educator’s autoethnography of oppression and liberation” American Educational Research Association | SIG-Critical Educators for Social Justice

• Panel Presentation, Cann, C., Jenkins, G., Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E., Martin, F., “Centering reflection, healing, and freedom dreaming: conducting Black community activist research in an anti-black world” The Comparative And International Education Society Western Regional Conference

• Paper Presentation, Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E., “I am my hair: A Black woman educator's autoethnography of oppression and liberation through schooling, bantu knots, box braids, locs, and a press” Critical Race Studies in Education Association

• Paper Presentation, Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E., “From creamy crack to locs: the weaving of an autoethnographic tale from a Black women educator” Trauma, Tresses, and Truth Conference

• Paper Presentation, Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E., “We will not walk through rotten orchards: abolition and (re)nourishing the soil of Black communities through insulated praxis in education” African, African American, and Diaspora

• Paper Presentation, Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E., “We out here: remixing student engagement in education via Black women and hip-hop pedagogy” 6th annual Teaching Black History Conference Sounds of Blackness: Hip Hop turns 50

• Paper Presentation, Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E., Martinez, N., and Sicat, L.K., “We are done surviving: counternarratives as a vehicle for rescripting the silencing of BIWOC students” American Educational Research Association

• Paper Presentation, Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, E., and Norris, A., “Femmenoir pedagogy: rescripting the reproduction of Black women’s marginalization in preservice STEM education” American Educational Research Association

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TEACHING

• Adjunct Lecturer; Saint Mary’s College of CA; Kalmanovitz School of Education 

  • Praxis Seminar, Single Subject Teacher Education

  • Teaching for Social Justice, Single Subject Teacher Education

  • Capstone Project, Master of Teaching

  • Pedagogical Knowledge, Master of Teaching

  • Introducing Inquiry, Master of Teaching

  • Instructional Design, Single Subject Teacher Education

  • Foundations Adolescent Literacy, Single Subject Teacher Education

  • Foundations of Secondary Education, Single Subject Teacher Education

• English teacher, Sociology teacher, Girls Basketball head coach, Girls Lacrosse assistant coach, California High School (2007-present), San Ramon, CA.

 

ORGANIZING BEYOND THEORY

• Co-founder; Making Us Matter Inc.
  [Co-Founder], [Bay Area]
  Making Us Matter is committed to reshaping the experience of Black students through Black educators. We take a disruptive and social justice approach to our pedagogy in order to recognize, emphasize, and humanize Blackness.

• Co-founding Editor; Black Educology Journal
  [Co-Producer], [University of San Francisco]
  The Journal of Black Educology is a collective of Black folks working to confers and collaborate with educational voices across the Black diaspora. The journal goes beyond the scope of academics to recognize transformative and emancipatory movements. 

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CONSULTING

• University of San Francisco Teacher Education Department 
  Creating curricula to work with a Black student cohort in Teacher Education through the racial affinity group program, specifically aimed at providing support relevant to students socio-political identities. 

• RISE for Racial Justice
  Facilitated “How to Talk About Race”, “Race Theory”, and “Community Activist Research” sessions with Black San Francisco resident cohorts through the Dream Keepers Initiative. 

• Due East & Equity Literacy Workshop
  Co-facilitated a workshop on anti-Blackness in education across districts.

• Making Us Matter X Due East
  Creating curricula to work with schools to engage proactive and reactive protocols that center frameworks like humanizing pedagogy and culturally sustaining pedagogy. Our work with students is rooted in encouraging agency, especially for the historically excluded. 

• Equity Audit
  Completed a mixed-methods approach equity audit for a nonprofit organization focused on recruiting, organizational culture, communication, and power dynamics.

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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

• Centering Black Women Educators fellowship

  • Developed curriculum, training, and materials to highlight the accomplishments of current and historical Black women educators.

• Combating Anti-Blackness and White Supremacy: And Other Conversations About Racism in Schools

  • In this workbook, I strive to help students and educators alike understand the history of anti-Blackness and white supremacy in our educational institutions.

• Girl Power Professional Learning Community

  • Developed training materials rooted in culturally responsive computing for the recruitment and retention of girls of color in STEM

• Bad Taste in Movies HACK Toolkit

  • This toolkit focuses on exploring how perceptions of Blackness are legitimized through film

• Girl Power by Design; National Science Foundation

  • Curriculum specialist for All Girl Power by Design: Broadening Participation in High School Information and ComputerScience Pathways

• Making Us Matter Syllabi Modules for Preservice Teachers 

  • Created a 16-week module for Black educators in Oakland Unified School District including courses on teaching for social justice, critical pedagogy, and curriculum design