I am a historian of American education, focusing on the educational activism of Black teachers, students, and communities during the Progressive Era (1890s–1940s). I serve as an Assistant Professor of Education and am affiliated with the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Bill Lane Center for the American West.

I am the author of A Worthy Piece of Work (Beacon Press, 2022), which explores how African American educator activists in the early twentieth century developed new curricular discourses around race and historical representation. My scholarly work includes six peer-reviewed articles and book chapters published in outlets such as the Journal of African American History, History of Education Quarterly, Review of Educational Research, and the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.

In addition to academic publications, I have written for popular outlets like the Washington Post, Time magazine, and Chalkbeat. I teach courses such as History of Education in the U.S. and Education for Liberation: A History of African American Education, 1800–The Present.