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*-The song is from Common's album The Dreamer, entitled "The Dreamer (ft. Dr. Maya Angelou).

**- The gold seal is my logo, and illustrates the golden beauty of Spirit and its universal presence, dancing through our lives.

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I received my Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University in the summer of 2007. A 2006 Ford Dissertation Diversity Fellow, I currently teach at California State University, Fresno, in the Africana Studies Program (formerly Africana and American Indian Studies). Previously, I taught at the Claremont Colleges (most notably Pitzer and Pomona Colleges) in the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies (now the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies), and Pitzer College's International and Intercultural Studies Department. I have also taught courses at California State University, Dominguez Hills, in the Africana Studies and Social & Behavioral Sciences Departments. My research focuses on Africana resistance cultures and media within Africana communities. My work also emphasizes how political ideology, icon-construction, identity-formation, religion/spirituality, and the imagination have been used as tools for social agency, cultural development, and political mobilization.

Recent Works!

Check out an interview I did for my Hip-Hop class' radio interviews! Lastly, check out my CSU Fresno webpage!

Look for my essay "The Prodigal God and the Legacy of Socially Responsible Hip-Hop!"	Check out the lecture KRS-One gave when I invited him to my 2011 Hip-Hop Research & Interview Project annual event at CSU Fresno!

In case you missed it, here's an interview I did with Brother J of X-Clan for the 1st Annual 2010 Hip-Hop Research and Interview Project for CSU Fresno!