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Ayo Sekai, Ph.D.

"Only people who take risks make mistakes. So, I will keep scraping my knees until I find the village that will break my fall."

Meet The Founder


Ayo Sekai, Ph.D.

"Only people who take risks make mistakes. So, I will keep scraping my knees until I find the village that will break my fall."














Dr. Ayo Sekai has worked over the last 22 years to advance outcomes for the education and business industries through academic research, federal leadership, and scholarly publications through the establishment of Universal Write Publications (UWP).

Dr. Sekai uses her platform to elevate the research of Black and Brown Scholars that bridge the gap between the Global South and Global North, with inclusive diasporic narratives, that work to dismantle structural racism caused by the perpetual omission of Black scholarship and address racial inequity in policies, practices, and higher education. She has leveraged her partnership with SAGE Publishing, a leading global social science press, to impact the voice of the diaspora as actors and agents further empowering Black Scholars to no longer be observed but to be observers of history through intellectual discourse.
Dr. Sekai is a Fulbright Specialist and a life member of multiple academic and practitioner associations. She serves on Higher Education commissions and is an active scholar presenting and writing on topics that align with her research and impact scholarly publications. Sekai has served as a keynote speaker, taught as both a high and middle school teacher, a poet, and author with decades of print media, magazine, fiction, and trade publications expertise. including her recorded social justice poetry, as a spoken word poetic activist.

Prior to her current chapter guiding and supporting Black Scholars to become recognized in their fields of study by creating more inclusive research, Dr. Sekai has been a public servant at multiple federal agencies, serving as an education and grants management specialist and Director. Earning her Ph.D. in Political Science from Howard University, Dr. Sekai is a linguistic scholar intent on interrogating language structures used to inform the legacy of the school-to-prison pipeline that promotes and impacts public policy and politics that become law perpetuating structural and systematic racism. For more information, visit www.UWPBooks.com.

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A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse

Ayo Sekai, Ph.D.
A2: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse Ayo Sekai, Ph.D. Abstract A2 is a qualitative inquiry that pushes the bounds of multidisciplinary scholarship through poetics, prose, and academic discourse. Though fairly new, poetic inquiry as a research method has been found in “social science disciplines of psychology, sociology, anthropology, nursing, social work, geography, women’s/feminist studies and education,” (Prendergast, 2009, p. 545). Harnessing this methodology, Dr. Ayo Sekai ventures to push the limits of academic scholarship by interrogating poetic discourse to address stigmas, norms and psycho-cultural perceptions weaponized against Black people through language. Recognizing the usage of language in oppressive systems, A2 takes readers on an intellectual journey that harnesses the Black experience through poetically informed research, blending the socio-cultural lens of the spoken word. With a foundation of political science, and Sekai’s unique voice in the field of Linguistic Imperialism, this text provides eye-opening perspectives through its titular scholarly poetical science discourse.
"There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise." W.E. B. Du Bois