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Dawn N. Hicks Tafari, Ph.D.

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" I was fascinated by the "unapologetic creativity" and moved to embrace this incredibly empowering way of presenting research on, about, and with folk in marginalized communities. My scholarship is one of the languages my humanity speaks."

Associate Professor, Education Department

A native New Yorker, HipHop Feminist, and Scholar Activist, Dr. Dawn N. Hicks Tafari is passionate about the arts, culture, education, and translating theory into practice. She has served as an elementary school teacher, a curriculum facilitator, a teacher education program coordinator, and an educational consultant for school districts, universities, and agencies across the country. Dawn’s work focuses on HipHop Feminism, Black boys and men in academic spaces, Critical Race Theory, and Kwanzaa as a site of resistance. Dr. Tafari is the 2017 recipient of the Winston-Salem State University & Wake Forest University Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Building the Dream Award and has been featured in the Winston-Salem Chronicle as “Busta Brown’s Person of the Week”.

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"Passion is powerful and important, but it is not enough. I am adamant that my work be accessible to the very people who contribute to it and to those who love them (Auntie bell taught me that). This resolve, and my passion for Critical Race Theory, led me to begin exercising the “unapologetic creativity” associated with weaving my research and data into composite counterstories."

- Dawn N. Hicks Tafari, Ph.D.

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