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Jamiella Brooks

Jamiella Brooks

Co-facilitator, Critical Pedagogy & Social Justice, Guest Facilitator or Speaker

Jamiella is currently the Director of Education & Professional Development Programs at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. She brings over 10 years of professional experience at the intersection of higher education and advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice through training, outreach, scholarship programs, and affinity groups.

Jamiella earned her Ph.D. at University of California, Davis in French Language and Literature, and served as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant in France. Brooks is the author of several articles, including “A Call to Interrogate Educational Development for Racism and Colonization” in Faculty Focus, and “Generatives from a First-Gen Low-Income PhD Mother of Colour,” in the 2020 second edition of Presumed Incompetent: Race, Class, Power, and Resistance of Women in Academia.

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