He received his doctorate from the Social and Cultural Studies in Education Program at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published in various journals such as Race, Ethnicity and Education, The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Souls, Ethnography and Education and The Oregon Historical Quarterly. He has also co-edited the book called Education and the Black Diaspora: Educational Perspectives, Challenges and Prospects. His most recent publication “Comparing Black Representations of Blackness in Portland, Oregon and Esmeraldas, Ecuador: Differences and Continuities,” will be published in Spring 2018 in Relating Worlds of Racism: Dehumanization, Belonging and the Normativity of Whiteness, ed. Essed, Farquharson, Pillay, and White published by Palgrave.