Jamila Lyiscott is an American scholar and writer. She is assistant professor of social justice education and co-founder of the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research at University of Massachusetts Amherst. [1]
Lyiscott's parents are from Trinidad and she grew up in the United States, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. [2] She has an MA in Black literature from Hunter College (2010) and a PhD from Teachers College, Columbia University (2015). [1] Her MA thesis was "False positive freedom" [3] and her doctoral thesis was "How Broken English Made Me Whole: Exploring Race, New Literacies, and Social Justice Within a Youth Participatory Action Research Framework". [4]
Lyiscott gave a TED talk in 2014, "3 ways to speak English", about her experience of being disrespected as a speaker of Trinidadian and Black American English. [2] This talk has been viewed more than 5 million times. [5] She gave TEDx talk "Why English Class is Silencing Students of Color" in 2018. [6]
She is an editor-in-chief of the journal Equity & Excellence in Education. [7]
In April 2022 she was Michael Rosen's guest on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth. [8]
Jamila Lyiscott is an American scholar and writer. She is assistant professor of social justice education and co-founder of the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research at University of Massachusetts Amherst. [1]
Lyiscott's parents are from Trinidad and she grew up in the United States, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. [2] She has an MA in Black literature from Hunter College (2010) and a PhD from Teachers College, Columbia University (2015). [1] Her MA thesis was "False positive freedom" [3] and her doctoral thesis was "How Broken English Made Me Whole: Exploring Race, New Literacies, and Social Justice Within a Youth Participatory Action Research Framework". [4]
Lyiscott gave a TED talk in 2014, "3 ways to speak English", about her experience of being disrespected as a speaker of Trinidadian and Black American English. [2] This talk has been viewed more than 5 million times. [5] She gave TEDx talk "Why English Class is Silencing Students of Color" in 2018. [6]
She is an editor-in-chief of the journal Equity & Excellence in Education. [7]
In April 2022 she was Michael Rosen's guest on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth. [8]